Rananim...
Thanks for the superb rant!
Words and notions that make us chuckle often do so because they create a mental caricature of a truth. That is to say, slightly distorted but certainly not wrong.
Re:
It came true. Go figure.
Despite all the head nodding and confidence regarding current Safety Management philosophy, and the "proactive" or "predictive" methodologies espoused, we as humans are very poor at foreseeing some of the most likely long-term outcomes of things we do and changes we make.
'Twas ever thus...