Given the tendency to drive toward Abilene, I don't think it's vacuous. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in groupthink and neglect the hard question of whet

Given the tendency to drive toward Abilene, I don't think it's vacuous. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in groupthink and neglect the hard question of whether something is really helping achieve your end-state. There's nothing vacuous about cautioning people not to fall into that trap.