Coping with Incompetence

This is one of my biggest challenges. Dealing with people (and organizations) who do not know what they are doing.

Although, at a different level they do know what they are doing - they are messing everything up, and enjoy doing this. Perhaps this should be added to the list of human pleasures - the satisfaction some people feel when they make others suffer.

However, this is already known, and labeled - masochism, and its twin, sadism. It's something of a relief, to me in my old age - to realize that the world I grew up in, back in another century - was masochistic, and not only that: incompetent as well.

I was living in a world that was collapsing socially - but advancing technically. And the two overlapped, to produce great confusion.

Social collapse has happened before, quite a few times - but the technical advances made possible by the computer have never happened before. The net result is that computer technology, is keeping alive a society that was failing - and would not have lasted long.

How will all this turn out?  No one knows - perhaps an environmental collapse will flood much of the world - and people will say "Maybe we did something wrong!"