God Help Us All
10th July 2015
Richard Fernandez is on a roll today.
It appears that the world is having an outbreak of stupidity. In the imebecile olympics, America may well emerge best off by ironically being the least competent at being incompetent. For example it is distracted right now by the problem of hauling down a 150 year old flag from a defeated government from several state capitols. Someone said on Twitter that when he boarded an airplane in Paris everyone was preoccupied with the Greek exit, but when he alighted in Atlanta everyone was talking about Donald Trump. This lack of focus may allow the others to pull ahead in the race to the bottom.
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Reverting to paper may actually improve security. Consider why this might be so.
The great benefit of paper clearance forms (and one might add, paper ballots) is that it limits the ability of bureaucrats to play games with data. The lower tech medium puts the kibosh on all the plans, mandates and improvements they are just dying to implement. All that gender stuff is hard to implement when you’re faced with a stack of paper reaching to the ceiling, besides making the information harder to leak, misuse or steal. It disempowers the bureaucrats.
The fact that reverting to lower tech may actually improve security suggests that lack of money isn’t the problem, nor are the shortcomings of computer hardware. The biggest shortage plaguing the elites today is a deficit of intelligence. They are a menace to themselves and to the public; and are not even smart enough to know how dumb they are.