Anonymous said...
Such a great title: "Mindless gods" etc.That's actually 90% of a good blog---a snappy and brainy-sounding title.When real-life paid authors have to choose a book title, they search for just such a phrase.Without an actual book , though, the title by itself ain't much of a creation.Reading the "mindless gods" blurb, you suddenly get the feeling of "Oh...it was just a good title"and reading on , its confirmedby the stumbling for an ending,or for a point, or for anything smart to say.So the Russian smeltworkers were ripped off by the"mindless" engineers?Lemme analyze this.The engineers computed & designed the process.They set the size, shape, power level andduty cycle of all the machinery involved.They arranged the process so no unwanted criticality events could emerge(as happened in Japan),and then they trained the good proletarian smeltwoikershow to run the stuff.Mindless?Not hardly.Very, Very "Mindy" indeed.The Vodka-swilling smeltwoikers then showed up, lit a cigarette, turned ontheir transistor radios, agreed who would get to sleep on that shift, and who would stay awake to watch for the boss,and pulled the lever to start the centrifuges.In between filling out soccer pool cards, and viewing porn magazines, they would run the machinesuntil the end of their shift.Wow!Who is mindless here?Did you mean to writeas a title:"The Mindless Proletarian Dogsof Radioactive Smelting"??




Anonymous,

I had to look up the definition of proletarian –though I heard it many times. Your truth intreges me here. Wow, I see it know you are brilliant. You captured it perfectly –although you tick me off a little because I think of myself as being proletarian. You have to admit I can’t write worth shit –but I seems to get peoples attention.

Of course intellect and intelligences gives us the ability to manipulate the rules and our material world around us to our own ends –it doesn’t say if we will do for any higher ends -either for power and any personal rewards.


It interesting you frame it as the engineers don’t have any faults, and labor drinks, smokes, likes the image of women and sleeps. I won’t deny that labor has a lot of personal defects –but I know that engineers and the elites have their fair share of human defects –like enron.

You you are using your high intellect to frame it selectively towards some unseen advantage of yours. My guest is you are in this drama triangle –where you want to organize the facts toward creating a power advantage in your so called philosophy. I mean, if we were all to agree with the rules of your game –this would leverage power towards your group.

But the best way to understand the system in it is to ask the question –the system is perfectly designed to create the problems of which you are seeing today. So if you are seeing disillusioned employees with contempt of the rules –why is the system creating that.

So why can’t we all be engineers!

mike