Saturday, January 07, 2012
Human capital is everything
Following from this and this.
Thinking purely with numbers is a convergent habit of modern right-wingers and left-wingers, and it is THE modern disease.
Right-wingers reach it via feral Randian capitalist thinking. Trillionaires deserve to win because they are trillionaires; non-trillionaire LOSERS LOSERS LOSERS NYAH NYAH NYAH must be expunged to purify the planet. It's vastly easier to get a trillion by numerical manipulation of currencies and derivatives than by producing things with human labor, so production and labor must disappear.
Left-wingers reach it via egalitarianism, which is blind to natural characteristics of humans. You aren't allowed to distinguish between a born killer and a born hero; you can only count the things owned by each, and take away all weapons from both.
No matter the source, the resultant mode of thinking is perfectly identical on both "sides" and perfectly lethal.
Bean-counting has destroyed our handling of crime, destroyed our education system, destroyed our medical system, destroyed productive business, destroyed science.
In all those areas, we're forbidden to look at plain facts, forbidden to use simple logic, forbidden to evaluate humans based on their own talents and sins. We must consider all humans as fungible point-like particles.
And of course I've said all that a thousand times. (Or more precisely, since we're all about counting, I've said it 2836 times. That's the total post-count of this blog excluding this post.)
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One new thought this morning, triggered by the admirable human focus of the Stennis commander.
The Bushobama neocon idiocy results directly from a bean-counting approach to war. Think about the WMD argument. How many things did Saddam have? And now, how many things does Persia have? Our two "sides" argue endlessly about the number of things, and whether the bean-count is accurate.
Neither "side" asks the ONLY QUESTION THAT COUNTS:
Does this country actually intend to attack us?
Never asked it about Iraq. Not once. And we're not asking it about Persia either. We're just watching their development of atomic beans, threatening them as their bean count increases, and trying to sabotage their bean-growing facility.
Remember this:
Japan didn't have any special advanced technology when it attacked us at Pearl Harbor. What it had was HUMAN WEAPONS. Kamikaze. Japan had warriors who were so determined to win that they would sacrifice their own lives.
Sheikh Osama didn't have any technology at all when he attacked us on 9/11. What he had was HUMAN WEAPONS. Jihadi. Osama had warriors who were so determined
to win that they would sacrifice their own lives.
It ain't the beans that count, it's the people. And that goes for crime, education, science, industry, and war. ¶ 5:01 AM
Thinking purely with numbers is a convergent habit of modern right-wingers and left-wingers, and it is THE modern disease.
Right-wingers reach it via feral Randian capitalist thinking. Trillionaires deserve to win because they are trillionaires; non-trillionaire LOSERS LOSERS LOSERS NYAH NYAH NYAH must be expunged to purify the planet. It's vastly easier to get a trillion by numerical manipulation of currencies and derivatives than by producing things with human labor, so production and labor must disappear.
Left-wingers reach it via egalitarianism, which is blind to natural characteristics of humans. You aren't allowed to distinguish between a born killer and a born hero; you can only count the things owned by each, and take away all weapons from both.
No matter the source, the resultant mode of thinking is perfectly identical on both "sides" and perfectly lethal.
Bean-counting has destroyed our handling of crime, destroyed our education system, destroyed our medical system, destroyed productive business, destroyed science.
In all those areas, we're forbidden to look at plain facts, forbidden to use simple logic, forbidden to evaluate humans based on their own talents and sins. We must consider all humans as fungible point-like particles.
And of course I've said all that a thousand times. (Or more precisely, since we're all about counting, I've said it 2836 times. That's the total post-count of this blog excluding this post.)
= = = = =
One new thought this morning, triggered by the admirable human focus of the Stennis commander.
The Bushobama neocon idiocy results directly from a bean-counting approach to war. Think about the WMD argument. How many things did Saddam have? And now, how many things does Persia have? Our two "sides" argue endlessly about the number of things, and whether the bean-count is accurate.
Neither "side" asks the ONLY QUESTION THAT COUNTS:
Does this country actually intend to attack us?
Never asked it about Iraq. Not once. And we're not asking it about Persia either. We're just watching their development of atomic beans, threatening them as their bean count increases, and trying to sabotage their bean-growing facility.
Remember this:
Japan didn't have any special advanced technology when it attacked us at Pearl Harbor. What it had was HUMAN WEAPONS. Kamikaze. Japan had warriors who were so determined to win that they would sacrifice their own lives.
Sheikh Osama didn't have any technology at all when he attacked us on 9/11. What he had was HUMAN WEAPONS. Jihadi. Osama had warriors who were so determined
to win that they would sacrifice their own lives.
It ain't the beans that count, it's the people. And that goes for crime, education, science, industry, and war. ¶ 5:01 AM
