Incompetence Battles Self-Inflation
Quote of the day courtesy of Joachim C. Fest:
"Even then Hitler used not to get up till about midday; he would stroll through the park, then sit up late at night over grandiose and senseless projects in which practical incompetence fought with impatient self-inflation."
If practical incompetence and impatient self-inflation don't apply to me I don't know what does. (George Bush also comes to mind--he is so deluded that when one of his future handlers suggested he run for president he actually had the affrontry to do it and we had the stupidity to elect him! Didn't practical incompetence come to mind when you saw him trying to pound in that nail. Doesn't his self-inflation come to mind whenever he proudly reads a complex sentence and gets that look on his face that screams "Look mom, no hands!") I suspect that Hitler, if he had been born in 20th Century America, would have been a marketing manager at a software or financial services company or some other organization that also only offers opportunities to waste large chunks of precious time. One of the benefits of working in the post-industrial age is that by working hard and not actually knowing anything of value a person can make a decent living. The most important thing is to be able to convince everyone that you actually take things seriously. In fact, to make it to the top of the heap one must never see their incompetence and the extent of their self-inflation. To do so is to be out. The show can only continue if everyone believes. Once someone sees the depth of the fraud then the show must end. This extends to so many things including enterainment, food, architecture, the very way we all live in this world. To make it one must believe. To fail is to see behind the curtain and step out of the show, leave the theater and actually start living your life and not the life of a consumer of cheap imitations. The slop bucket is full of muck and we all see it as this feast of wonderful things.
"Even then Hitler used not to get up till about midday; he would stroll through the park, then sit up late at night over grandiose and senseless projects in which practical incompetence fought with impatient self-inflation."
If practical incompetence and impatient self-inflation don't apply to me I don't know what does. (George Bush also comes to mind--he is so deluded that when one of his future handlers suggested he run for president he actually had the affrontry to do it and we had the stupidity to elect him! Didn't practical incompetence come to mind when you saw him trying to pound in that nail. Doesn't his self-inflation come to mind whenever he proudly reads a complex sentence and gets that look on his face that screams "Look mom, no hands!") I suspect that Hitler, if he had been born in 20th Century America, would have been a marketing manager at a software or financial services company or some other organization that also only offers opportunities to waste large chunks of precious time. One of the benefits of working in the post-industrial age is that by working hard and not actually knowing anything of value a person can make a decent living. The most important thing is to be able to convince everyone that you actually take things seriously. In fact, to make it to the top of the heap one must never see their incompetence and the extent of their self-inflation. To do so is to be out. The show can only continue if everyone believes. Once someone sees the depth of the fraud then the show must end. This extends to so many things including enterainment, food, architecture, the very way we all live in this world. To make it one must believe. To fail is to see behind the curtain and step out of the show, leave the theater and actually start living your life and not the life of a consumer of cheap imitations. The slop bucket is full of muck and we all see it as this feast of wonderful things.
posted by The Stoic at 10:03 AM
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