Tag: Parkinson
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Boom in quantity = bust in quality
Denyse asks if there’s a rise in dishonesty and cheating in academia. I doubt it. Primarily there has been a huge rise in PUBLISHED UNITS since tenure and grants dominated academia in 1970. Grad students and new profs are required to churn out huge QUANTITIES of papers, and the only way to get there is…
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More pointless thoughts
Continuing thoughts on the universal dividers. Rulers generate divides to keep the people weak and distracted so every bad event can be symmetrically scapegoated. R blames D, D blames R, nobody blames the permanent Deepstate. A few of the side-makers are controlled by Deepstate, especially the rioters and protesters. A proper riot needs government support…
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Breaking Parkinson
Discovery Institute, the defender of Intelligent Design, has been drifting into Parkinsonian triviality, making annoying movies and podcasts, and writing pointless arguments. I don’t know the cause, but suspect it’s part of the same trend that is collapsing bitcoin and wokedom. Discovery has a few tech-tyrant patrons whose worldview is not the same as Bezos…
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It’s all about caste
Recurring to the theme of primary sources. One of Taibbi’s commenters approvingly cites Mencken’s nasty description of Harding’s writing. Primary sources tell the correct story. Mencken was an arrogant conformist elitist bully of the worst sort. Pure Nietzsche. I am GOD. You are SHIT. He constantly berated peasants and Southerners and yokels. He hated anyone…
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Modern version
Somebody once said that politics is Hollywood for the ugly. The modern version: Politics is Tiktok for the insane. The public parts of politics serve ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTION. Congress and the executive have deliberately surrendered their own legal power to the courts and Deepstate. When they couldn’t surrender it to another branch, they placed non-legal…
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Parkinson didn’t foresee
Both houses of Congress have been purposeless for a LONG time, but they lost their purpose in unusual ways. As documented by Parkinson, an agency or organization starts out with a meaningful goal, assigned to solve a real problem. Parkinson saw two alternate paths to triviality: (1) The agency or organization solves the real problem…
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More sanity from Lawyer Stevens
Lawyer Richard Stevens writes another splendidly clear article on AI and lawsuits. As I’ve noted before, it’s not mysterious. AI is a tool. When a tool is designed to cause damage or death, the MAKER of the tool is responsible. AI is designed to cause libel and damage and death. It’s advertised as a game-like…
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So close yet so far
Brownstone continues to diagnose the problem perfectly, but misses badly on the prescription side. I appreciate the full Machiavellian diagnosis, focusing HEAVILY on the lockdowns and ballgags, less on the needles. As I’ve been tiresomely and pointlessly repeating, the needles were only a few moments of pain. The rest of it was two full years…
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Vivek the magsman
This Vivek character is playing a weird game. First he claimed that Lincoln’s Genocide was about applying the 2nd amendment to blacks, which is loony. Now he proposes raising the “voting” age to 25, and requiring a literacy and citizenship test for “voting”. After two examples, a pattern emerges. He’s parodying everything Repooflicans say, as…
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Fairness Doctrine applied
Wolf Richter always provides Parkinsonian realism. One of the VERY FEW online commentators who applies the Fairness Doctrine, though it’s no longer required. In today’s wonderful article on the “debt ceiling” comedy routine: = = = = = START QUOTE: The debt-ceiling farce being performed currently in Congress could turn from a mildly entertaining political…
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Borodin, Parkinson, Mendel
Now that the fight seems to be finished, but without any visible or audible All Clear or VE Day, the anti-Deepstate fighters have divided into two camps. One camp is running wild, taking the vax fight into ever more distant extremes, finding new enemies that may or may not exist, and following RFK directly into…
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Mysterious closing
UncommonDescent has suddenly closed down. The URL leads to an archive, with one farewell message from its original founder Dembski. He doesn’t say why it halted. At this point I won’t miss it. About a year ago Denyse pulled out, briefly replaced by Eric Hedin, then he was gone. Since then it’s been solely occupied…
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Follow his example
When you start with the worst possible assumption, you’re rarely disappointed or shocked. When you start with Machiavelli and Parkinson, you’re rarely** shocked by government and corporate actions. The real question is: What do you do INSTEAD of shocked outrage and offense? Have fun. I started with the assumption that “free speech” is a trick…
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More establishment flip
Lately I’m impressed by some ordinary establishment types who seem to be grasping the truth of our predicament, while the alleged independents have either converged to Gaia or veered off into denser and denser underbrush. This ordinary economist, Steve Hanke, SEES the war situation and the public “health” situation with stark clarity. “This war against…
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Metes and bees
Brownstone is another frustrating visionary. Do they really have a goal, or are they just another Parkinson organization trying to keep running without a goal? From their latest mission statement: = = = = = START QUOTE: The [“virus”] response was as much an institutional failure as it was a failure of rationality and courage.…
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