fantasies vs myths


fantasies
who believes:
marketing, advertising people, lawyers, consultant (consenting) adults
who gets hurt:
marketing, advertising people?   (no comment..)

myths
who believes:
researchers, vendors, policymakers, journalists, secretary of defense
potentially: marketing, advertising people, lawyers, consultant (consenting) adults
who gets hurt:
packets (dropped)
engineers (paged) 
protocol developers (in worst case they invent stuff like atm, mpls)
grad students (useless dissertations, sub-employability, lost decades of youth)
economy (irrational speculation in capital markets -> global recession)