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REDUNDANCY 2

I am probably one of the world’s least efficient non-fiction writers.  I don’t research per se, past a one off fact I need for a larger subject.  I don’t say, hey, today I want to choose the history of the M-16, and then research it.  That would be too efficient.  No, I read whatever the heck interests me at the moment and weeks, months or years later when I feel interested enough to write about a subject I just go by memory.  I can write after just reading or watching something, but I have lots of other previous input to add.

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I think I write better for it, because it doesn’t read like I just pulled a subject out of my ass and then went to read the Wiki article on it.  I mix and match odd facts that have no business coexisting.  Like it or not, at least I’m not the same textbook sounding fool like most other writing out there.  I can bring passion to the project because I’m only writing what I myself enjoy ( who enjoys FLIR scopes so much they passionately vomit prose thereof? ).  But there is a cost to that-gross inefficiency of time and effort.

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And that is why there is almost no redundancy anymore.  No one is willing to pay the price.  It goes far beyond just economics.  Money was the impetus, but by becoming the standard rice bowl for so many, otherwise worthless workers validating their existence by cost cutting without regard for price, it is now a philosophical and cultural feature.  For instance, Peak Oil ( don’t worry, luxury whores, fracking fags, hopium smokers, I won’t dwell long ).  No worries, why, we’ll just increase efficiency.  We did it before so we can do it again ( sing with me! ).

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When you have a drafty house, you burn more heat in the winter.  By being more mindful of insulation and sealing widow and door cracks, you vastly increase energy efficiency.  That is what all of us should be doing-investing while we can to use a heck of a lot less when energy costs spike.  We did that way back when, and it got to the ridiculous point of wrapping houses in plastic ( completely about saving money even as housing costs exploded, but sold as energy efficiency ).  So the logical question becomes, how?

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How do you gain more efficiency by this point?  The only answer is to begin reducing MORE redundancy.  You can’t improve the efficiency of the house.  So you must downsize the house size itself ( the redundancy was the extra rooms you could rent for emergency income ).  You can’t get much more gas mileage without designing in increased crash fatalities, so you must get rid of extra vehicles.  Now you are more prone to missed days of work and higher mechanic bills as you have no back-up transportation.  THAT is how we will deal with the next energy contraction.

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Now, let us switch gears to the bigger picture.  Look at military redundancy.  You have a lot of extra equipment sitting around doing little.  That is a good thing.  You must factor in attrition.  But there is creeping “efficiency disease”.  Less and less redundancy and more and more often leaning towards Just In Time delivery ( JIT is all about wringing redundancy out of the system.  It works perfect.  In a perfect environment without any disasters or failures ).  But because of decades of Lean Fighting, the military JIT is always under budget constraints.  What genius thought parts cannibalization was a good idea?

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You are borrowing a hamburger today and repaying it on Wednesday.  But on that day there is a government shutdown and the parts replacement gets delayed once again.  So now you have zero redundancy.  Your only hope is to be able to tow the exploded vehicle/weapon back to base and hope the part you borrowed from the other unit isn’t part of the damage.  You have destroyed redundancy as the efficiency drive went too far.  Which it has, across ALL sectors of our civilization/empire/culture.  Look at how we have gotten so efficient in the computer sector.

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To save a few bucks, a tech firm gets their CongressCritter to authorize more work visa’s from India.  Indian programmers trained in Indian schools are doing the work.  As a result, you have far less programmers HERE, or the schools open to train the subject ( I know you don’t need to go to college to program-I’m just using the example as infrastructure collapse ).  In time, because you wouldn’t pay for redundancy, you have created vulnerability.  All those US chip factories we closed to be more efficient?  Now China makes all our chips.  Oops-ee!

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Look at all the die and tool equipment and workers we no longer have because they were not efficient.  We couldn’t restart our industrial economy if we wanted to because of that right there ( in a short time period, such as wartime ).  No one thinks this is a problem because efficiency has become so much of a religion you cannot introduce logic or reason into the equation.  Look at political correctness reducing inefficiency by eliminating quality education ( political officers enforcing Right Think rather than training standards ).  Real training costs resources, but reeducation camps are nearly free and churn out more graduates.

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When all the redundancy of trained professionals is eliminated, where do you go from there?  Just hire every engineer from India?  Sure-open borders reduces the inefficiencies of security.  I almost wonder if survivalists are such outcasts not because of “freedom” or “non-socialist” but because they preach the toxic subject of non-efficiency.  Jesus weeps, if we had redundancy get out into the general public folks might begin to wonder how vulnerable efficiency has made us.  Granted, you cannot reverse or change this course.  It is a natural consequence of contracting resources.  A system defense, like homosexuality in overpopulation.

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Here is to my minions, fellows in inefficiency!

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