One reason we in the U. S. do not speak the language of the Master Aryan Race today is that Hitler placed incompetents in charge of their nuclear physics efforts and the courageous denial by Norwegian agents of a supply of heavy water certainly helped. The Nazi version of the Manhattan Project would have produced militarily useful result…
One reason we in the U. S. do not speak the language of the Master Aryan Race today is that Hitler placed incompetents in charge of their nuclear physics efforts and the courageous denial by Norwegian agents of a supply of heavy water certainly helped. The Nazi version of the Manhattan Project would have produced militarily useful results at some point just as their ballistic missile and jet aircraft projects did. Placing politically loyal apparatchiks in charge of technical projects is unlikely to produce the desired outcome - Senator Proxmire nothwithstanding. Time to brush up on my Russian and Mandarin.
Trump and MAGA support Loyal Incompetence. The more loyal you are, the less important competence becomes, even to the point where incompetence is a virtue, because you need to stay loyal because you could never go anywhere else on your merits. The Nazis did this, as well as every totalitarian regime. If you were competent, you could see the virtue in disloyalty to the crazy dictator, and you might end up like Rommel.
"One is not precise. Once praises fools, one smothers light,..." - Evita, The Art of the Possible
One reason we in the U. S. do not speak the language of the Master Aryan Race today is that Hitler placed incompetents in charge of their nuclear physics efforts and the courageous denial by Norwegian agents of a supply of heavy water certainly helped. The Nazi version of the Manhattan Project would have produced militarily useful results at some point just as their ballistic missile and jet aircraft projects did. Placing politically loyal apparatchiks in charge of technical projects is unlikely to produce the desired outcome - Senator Proxmire nothwithstanding. Time to brush up on my Russian and Mandarin.
Trump and MAGA support Loyal Incompetence. The more loyal you are, the less important competence becomes, even to the point where incompetence is a virtue, because you need to stay loyal because you could never go anywhere else on your merits. The Nazis did this, as well as every totalitarian regime. If you were competent, you could see the virtue in disloyalty to the crazy dictator, and you might end up like Rommel.
"One is not precise. Once praises fools, one smothers light,..." - Evita, The Art of the Possible