On veut croire que c'est vrai, c'est tout
« It’s not as if Enron employees were laughing at the gullibility of the outside world. Certainly there were executives who worried about the company’s financial maneuvers, but the vast majority of people who worked for Enron simply assumed that the Global Finance team and Enron’s accountants at Arthur Andersen — not to mention the stock analysts and credit analysts — knew what they were doing and that there was nothing for them to worry about. Some skeptics in individual units, like EES, saw that their own part of the company was struggling. But even they assumed that elsewhere at Enron things were humming along nicely. »
The Smartest Guys in the Room, p 239
« Does it need to be said that there was almost nothing to back up the hype ? »
Ibid, p 292
« A majority of Americans believes that the Bush administration went to war precipitously on the basis of incorrect assumptions. An overwhelming majority believes that the administration portrayed Iraq as an imminent threat, while a majority believes that the administration did not have evidence for this and that it was not in fact the case. »
Lire la suite chez Whiskey Bar.
Triste répétition d’un trait national de crédulité mal placée. (Et mes sincères excuses pour tout l’anglais que je n’ai pas le temps d’essayer de traduire.)