Crazy People Are Bad Programmers

I have just got a heavy dose of the thinking of one of these guys, who is teaching a programming course, and the experience has shaken me. It was like going back to Silicon Valley in the Nineties, when such craziness was prevalent - and no one noticed it.

The only way I could cope with it, was to leave the country, and live in Costa Rica. But the same craziness has followed me down here.

What do I mean by crazy? The only way to do this, is by pointing at crazy people, and saying "Like them!" 

But when you are surrounded by them, this is difficult, and even dangerous. People do not like being seen for what they are. They want to be seen for what they think they are - when their thinking has been badly compromised.

How was it compromised? Lots of people have answered this - each in their own way. But they all agree on the defining event - the Industrial Revolution, that changed who we were - permanently.

This was caused by the discovery of The Machine, in the form of the Steam Engine. And later, the Internal Combustion Engine - that powered the Automobile. And, holding all this together - The Market, that made everything possible. All this created a new culture, with new people in it.

All this was madness, and mass madness, at that. And everyone in it said, as loudly as they could "We are not crazy! And anyone who says so, must be dealt with severely."

This was enough to make most people, pee in their pants. They were so scared.