We were all greatly enjoying ourselves, sailing around, far from shore, dancing aboard our host's yacht, The World, in our various dance styles. On the foredeck most dancers were energetically twirling and stomping avante garde  and leading-edge style with much excitement, while on the fantail a few old fashioned dancers preferred the slow traditional style. None of us noticed (or if any did, none cared) that there were no life rafts, life preservers, or life jackets on board. Everyone was just having a great time.

After a while, someone on the fantail noticed that the violent dancing on the foredeck had started some leakage there, and the yacht was starting to take on water. When this observation was announced, a few decided that it was prudent to leave the dancers causing the damage on the foredeck and join the dancers on the fantail, and thereby stop contributing to the broadening of the leak. A group of us tried to get the others on the fordeck to follow this example by telling them as clearly as we could,
"your end of the ship is sinking,"
but everyone there seemed to be having too much fun to pay any attention to this warning, or to take it seriously. Well, I guess we had done all that we could reasonably be expected to do.

On the other hand, maybe we could try to organize a group of volunteers together to try to repair the leak, or at least to try slowing the leak down some as the yacht sailed back to port.

Nah, that sounds too much like a bureaucratic program, and no one would want to have anything to do with that kind of thing.