Bozos At The Helm

clipped from pajamasmedia.com From where I sit, the United States government has embarked on two pieces of social engineering in the last few years. One was to make oil expensive as expensive as possible to drive people to greater use of alternative energy sources - because anything less would be irresponsible and destructive to the environment. The other was to enshrine home ownership (i.e., easy-to-obtain mortgages) as a new American right - because anything less would be unequal and racist. Then, once they became crises, both were blamed on ‘greedy capitalism’, instead of what they really were: legislative interference into market forces. At least in the business world, especially in the take-no-prisoners world of high-tech that kind of venality and ineptitude either gets you fired or kills the company; by comparison, in Washington, it puts you in charge of the recovery effort.

He's right about the problem and how we got here.

Unfortunately -- and speaking as a high-tech nerd myself -- I'm not quite so sanguine about the ability of technology to get us out of it since it's very much a double edge sword. The barrier to entry for WMD is rapidly turning into a pumpkin for instance.

Welcome to the Tinfoil Apocalypse. With Bozos at the helm.