Sky News doing a Brexit countdown

Jul 26, 2019 -- 2:22PM, Just Checking wrote:

They've started straight off with the negativity on that, did you not watch the Bash Boris Corporation at 1? "Not enough police stations" "Not enough training places" "Competitive job market which will make recruitment difficult" etc. How dare he have ambitions and a positive attitude to trying to do something.I wonder what the BBC were like during WW2. "This is sh1t, we haven't enough troops, an MG42 has a higher fire rate than a Bren, the Tiger Tanks are SCARY, their uniforms are better, we don't have enough diversity and transgender representation in the SAS and Commandos, lets not even try".I'd stick every last BBC journalist (except Neil) in a sherman tank in a heat wave.

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell actually talks about this phenomenon from a different perspective. During WWII, Germany was trying to blitz (a heavy bombing technique the Germans used to crush their enemies) London, but their plan backfired.

Why was this? Because these near misses gave the people of London a new confidence, an extremely emboldened, inspired vigor in their lives. There were many who were killed, but there were many more that were near death but not harmed. So, instead of feeling scared, they were invigorated. They felt a sense of invincibility.

Many times, the plans used to foil us turn into our greatest triumphs. Mankind has an uncanny ability to restore what is broken and adapt to rough, even deadly, circumstances in order to survive. Our instinct for survival is unparalleled on this earth. So when we reach a low point, the lowest of lows, and we recover, we now know that space. We’ve been there and we’ve come up out of the ashes.