Parkinson corollary

Corollary of Parkinson, not quite stated in the book but easily inferred:

When a leader or organization wants you to help accomplish a PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goal, you can be sure the real purpose is hidden.

Physically impossible goals are guaranteed to increase the budget and workforce forever. At every stage in the process, the leader can “justifiably” urge MORE EFFORT! TRY HARDER! With another million or billion or trillion, we WILL get there!

Endless wars are the most deadly example. Victory is always just around the corner. One more battle, one more blockade, one more propaganda campaign, and the horrible enemy will be obliterated!

Current example from Taibbi’s “fight” “against” “censorship”:

If we do not end the surveillance apparatus, it will end our right to speak, and therefore think, and therefore live as free people. This is the fight of our lives.

Impossible goal and bad logic. Surveillance is ALWAYS present. Every government spies and monitors its citizens. Monitoring is a necessary form of feedback. Without monitoring you get even worse tyranny. Deepstate’s specific modern monitors, and Deepstate’s modern total control of media, have been in place since 1913, with ups and downs along the way. Despite these demons we have always been able to speak and think, as long as we take reasonable precautions.

This is parallel but not quite identical to the “global warming” crusade. Weather is ALWAYS present. Every place on earth has its own style of storms or heat waves or cold waves that endanger lives. There’s no new “warming” caused by our sins, no specific modern version of weather. Despite storms, we have always been able to live our lives, as long as we take reasonable precautions.

The nastiest part of both crusades is that they take our attention away from the permanent conditions and reasonable precautions. The anti-censorship crusade wants us to PROTEST LOUDLY and MARCH IN THE STREETS, thus catching the attention of the demons and marking us as enemies who need to be exterminated. The anti-warming crusade wants us to eliminate air conditioning and heating and reliable energy and dams, making us totally vulnerable to the permanent hazards of weather.