epidemic of stupidity

EPIDEMIC OF STUPIDITY

It is all very well and good to observe institutional stupidity, point out the glaringly moronic imbeciles at the helm of the USS Titanic, and chuckle in amusement, congratulating ourselves on our own intelligence. It is a nice coping mechanism. After all, if you are smart enough to figure out a solution, and you know you are well placed on the bell curve but you ain't THAT smart, well then, surely someone else in the organization will stumble onto the solution as well. In the end, after some minor disruption, all will be well.

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And it has worked like that, somewhat, for a long time. Organizations, like mobs, have the collective IQ of the average. Well, I mean, obviously you don't count the retard janitor who was a diversity hire. And a nice public relations move that was, giving someone a chance at a semi-normal life that would otherwise be institutionalized. But he isn't involved in any decisions that would alter the organization, unless a spill was left on the floor and the smartest guy slipped on it and hit his melon and went into a coma, which would lower the collective intelligence. But that is an outlier.

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Organizations act in a mildly stupid manner but somehow manage to usually get things done in a passable manner. Until one day all the past marginal decisions rope them into a corner and there is no way out. Only the least worst choices are available. Let's look at the clown show Aesop pointed out not too long ago, with the CDC and like minions involved in the Pass The Plague fiasco in California. How many weak points do you think were involved there? First, you have to go back to the 1960's. The years minorities were given official victim status and prioritized for special treatment.

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That eventually morphed into Political Correctness. Which lead to diversity hires. This drastically reduced the collective IQ of most organizations. Not because “Blacks are less intelligent”, although they might be ( but is irrelevant ), but because ability and skill were no longer tested or rewarded but penalized and rejected. It was a death by a thousand cuts, decades of one very poor decision ( although small at the time ) after another until the entire culture was changed to lower the organizations intelligence AND problem solving ability.

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Darwin Awards started to be viewed as a good thing, and Dog help us all. Whatever behavior you reward, you'll get more of. The WHO might be made up of doctors, but those are political appointees where medicine is far down a long list of priorities, way below money, power, institutional survival, politics and any other evil that can be thought of. The CDC was probably decades behind the WHO, in disfunctionality, but they seem to have caught up nicely. Now add in the financial system. It isn't the same as simple greed or fear of loss of job stability. It corrupts good judgment.

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When a country is run by engineers, things get built to solve problems. When a country is run by lawyers, laws get passed to solve problems. And when bankers are in charge of countries, more loans are issued to solve problems. Yet, sound finances are necessary to run a country. And indebtedness is NOT a sound financial state. Put lawyers appointed by bankers in charge, and nothing good happens. Oh, at first it does. A sound system can take a lot of abuse before breaking. You are drawing down the capital built up. The problems are hidden, or solved with a minor cost. But the costs add up and eventually all skeletons in the closet are revealed.

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None of these issues were necessarily caused by outright stupidity. Lesser intelligence might have been at work behind the less stellar decisions. The stupidity only comes out in crisis, and crisis is only lasting when an organization is unable to solve a problem with its limited tools. Since the US economy has been generating short term wealth since the end of its manufacturing economy ( not that manufacturing doesn't sow its own seeds of eventual destruction ), banker manipulation has usually solved the problems, even if it made the eventual collapse worse. We might now be at the collapse. Before, demand was always the problem.

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Lower interest rates and create more credit. With wages stagnating and then falling, demand was the issue. The Federal Reserve just kept blowing bubbles. It got us through many embryonic Derivatives implosions, Tech Wrecks, Kuwaiti oil disruptions, larger derivatives issues and etcetera. But suddenly, supply is now becoming the issue. Without supply, no demands can be met. You cannot print supply chains. The Fed is powerless. Just as the CDC cannot actually handle an emergency when all it had been doing to survive was to become a propaganda arm of the Politically Correct Economy.

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You don't think PC is a financial scam? You don't think it is a growing and well funded industry? Take its smallest component, OtherColor Disadvantaged Youth, terrorizing Honky's for shake down money ( the mayors of similar demographic group cities acting in the exact same manner ). To its largest component in carbon taxes and restricted college/jobs and reproduction for White males, a civilization scale theft of assets.

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The CDC ( and its state equivalents ) have no test kits. Since the kits are probably made in China, they are not getting any. It isn't a great loss, as they work for absolute crap, but that isn't the point. The point is how that particular problem is solved. They restrict the tests to only the most obvious cases, those having returned from China or swapping fluids with someone who was just in China. Then, they write memos in triplicate up and down the chain of command deeming if the patient is “test worthy” ( shades of “Seinfeld” ). Only then is one of the remaining 83 tests flown under high security to the hospital.

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After all, the CDC only gets double digit billions a year in budget. How can they be expected to find another way to test people? People are paid to push paper, not look under microscopes. Most of the research is into how guns are a disease, or how sickle cell anemia is racist. Like the military, decades of religious political correctness ruin an organization of most effectiveness. The organization still works, but not at what it was originally intended as ( such as March Of Dimes works to fund raise its operating expenses, not to cure the disease it was organized to eradicate. Which has already happened ).

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When an organization has cultural problems, an inability to perform its function after its workforce was replaced by a diverse rainbow, when politics are its mission statement, when it is a fundraiser for profiteering, the people running it are not necessary stupid. But their employer sure is. Their organization isn't even necessarily stupid. Just evolved into something else. Now, apply this across the entirety of our society. Rinse and repeat. Now watch cascading failure.

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