I just wonder how much Dick does know about aviation. Well actually I think I know the answer.
I routinely tell my (Asian) F/Os that I am old and grey and fallible and that if they wish to be my best friend they will scream like a stuck pig when I do something stupid. As do most expats I know. And the F/Os, perhaps being a little sick of arrogance etc, listen.
Pride, arrogance, infallibility, myopia, introspection, etc etc are killers in aviation. We are all the product of the accidents or near accidents that some other poor bugg@rs had at some time in the past.
Preaching about how "I have a dream" worked for Martin Luther King...he at least invested his life's work in that dream. Not as an interested bystander. To hear Dick's "I have an airspace dream" is to discourage me from ever going to sleep again.
Why do we listen to him?