A coda to yesterday's post on the State Department: a desperate department official wrote to me, describing the sluggishness with which refugee applications in Syria and Jordan are being reviewed: There is no excuse for this kind of mindless bureaucratic approach.
By George Packer August 12, 2008 A coda to yesterday's post on the State Department: a desperate department official wrote to me, describing the sluggishness with which refugee applications in Syria and Jordan are being reviewed: There is no excuse for this kind of mindless bureaucratic approach.
"This mindless, zero-tolerance approach is ill advised," said Ben DeCosta, the general manager of Hartsfield Atlanta International, which was shut down for four hours last November after a man ran down an up escalator to retrieve a camera bag.
Food for thought: How many of life's normal, everyday problems do we approach with mindless, automatic thinking that we can remedy any problem with a product?
Fagen said that the activity can be mindful or mindless, depending on how one approaches it.
Anti-capitalist groups are so fed up of their portrayal as mindless, rock-wielding thugs that approaches from the mainstream media are viewed with extreme suspicion.
This approach was not only heartless but mindless; countries being eaten alive by disease, hunger and regional warfare were bad candidates for tough love.
Today's reporters like mindless bots assume they can continuously employ the same approach, and the masses will embrace them with the same gusto as yesteryear.
