Non-aircraft people do not understand this - you either have aviation in your blood or you do not.
If you do not, but pretend that you do, you are a poser and a destroyer of aviation culture.
You can add 'destroyer of innocent lives' to that.
In the 1970s and ‘80s I watched the American machine tool industry crumble around me, as the fine old legacy companies came under the control of MBAs who knew nothing about the business except how to extract value for short-term shareholder profit. No engineering, no strategic planning, nothing. The Japanese came in selling machines inferior to what we could build, but with superior computer tech, and they stole the most profitable market segment, the job shops.
/rant
That is so true. I love all the aircraft I worked on. When I see one on a static display, I cannot help but run my hand gently over the skin. I see the anti-smash lights and the wing tip lens glazed over with age, which makes me sad. Sometimes, I can poke my head in the wheel well and still smell that JP-5 exhaust mixed with grease and naugahyde odor (pilots and maintenance people know the odor I speak of) that is so common on military aircraft. Then, just for a moment, it is 1981, and I am on the flight line with my tool kit.