A while back, one of our guys said something that I found almost offensive in its stupidity. I'm not going to name names because I rather like this gentleman, and I think he's doing good work. He said that the Competency Crisis is equivalent to the Climate Crisis, which I took to mean that it's a made-up thing used as a political bludgeon, a tool for fundraising, or fodder for take-sellers and content creators. This could not be further from the truth. Anyone who actually works with their hands, works with machinery, or works in the attendant services & operations surrounding people that work with their hands and/or machinery knows beyond a doubt that something untoward is going on in terms of baseline competence. Fundamentals are being forgotten and bedrock activities & practices are being lost with every retirement party and death.
Every time the specter of World War Three rises, the presumption of nuclear exchange stands over the discussion, looming and leering like a skinwalker. People consider themselves pretty well versed in the realm of nuclear weapons and the use thereof. But if you ever corner a person and start asking pointed and informed questions, you can quickly deduce that they have no idea what they are talking about. For commentators and random people, this doesn't really matter; we live in an era of ignorance on pedestals. The problem is that when you talk to subject matter experts, military officials, and the people who are actually part of the decision chain for these and other weapons, you will come to the same conclusion. This is a challenge because you need actual insider knowledge and at least in elementary understanding of the processes and technology under review. Everyone with any level of connectivity is fully aware that there is something awry with nuclear devices, but the theories and claims vary pretty wildly. I will throw down a marker and accept all the consequences if I am wrong or right: The overwhelming majority of nuclear arsenals plain don't work, and the ones that “work” will not work like they're supposed to.
I'm not the right person to go into detail on this, but I can give you the skinny from an outsider perspective, the well worn armchair upon which I sit. The term nuclear bomb is a misnomer; while bombs/ explosives are involved, the more correct term is nuclear device. You have to internalize that every single nuclear device is literally an experiment, and they always have been. Due to the unbelievable pressure, energy release, and attendant conflagration, there is no way to closely observe what happens when a nuclear device is initialized and deployed. The best you can do is stand far away and look inside with everything you have at your disposal, collecting as much data as possible. Whenever you look at an explanation of how a nuclear device works, they very much bury the lede right in plain sight: All the steps they walk through happen in a series of nanoseconds. I'm going to keep this unsourced because I'm lazy, but most of those steps you will see are all between nanosecond 0 and nanosecond 500. For us, in the real world, device go bang. But just because these steps happen very quickly1 doesn't mean they aren't critical and complex. If things do not do what they are supposed to do in the exact right sequence, the outcome can be no chain reaction at all, a limited chain reaction, or some other situation that, again from the outside, falls anywhere between "bang" or "no bang."
If Russia or NATO detonated a device which would be referred to as a tactical nuke on the battlefield of Ukraine right now, many people would reject that it had occurred and/or was nuclear. Something funny happened when movie making moved from the purely practical in-camera effects era to digital post-production dystopia. Because everybody is fascinated and horrified by nukes, of course they would be deployed as McGuffin's and set pieces in movies. Many thousands of nuclear tests have occurred and almost all of them have been documented to the nth degree2, so there is no lack of data and footage to be sifted through for myriad purposes. But not all nuclear devices are created equal, and not all mushroom clouds are equally aesthetic. Overwhelmingly, people are most familiar with one of the Castle Bravo shots3. Something about the shape, the contours of the cloud, the ejecta ring blasting out from the middle, the bulbous head and the colors, the list is probably endless... This is the explosion that gets drawn & redrawn, rendered & manipulated, shrunk and enlarged, then inserted into story after story. But Castle Bravo, while the numbers are truly horrifying and impressive in real terms, doesn't hold a radioactive candle to Tsar Bomba. That is the detonation that is always used by journalists and fearmongers to talk about strategic nuclear exchange.
While I maintain that there are no true nuclear experts living on the planet at this point4, even at the pinnacle of the science and development of nuclear weapons, they were poorly understood and handmade. No one has ever applied economies of scale or modern manufacturing processes to the development of nuclear devices5. Just like the Saturn V rocket, it was made by hand from the drawings all the way to the device on the launchpad. Saturn V never had a single engine failure, which is truly impressive, but there are more than a few instances of nuclear devices not performing as they were supposed to. There are also plenty of instances where the devices performed exactly as they were supposed to, but the people constructing and deploying them did not fully understand what they were doing. One time that it worked was in fact Tsar Bomba: The device was theoretically able to generate a 100 megaton explosion, and after a bit of napkin math, and realizing that pilots are pretty expensive, they dialed it down to half strength for the test. It was still a 50/50 chance that the pilots wouldn't make it out6 .
Tsar Bomba is one of the most appropriately named things in human history, because it was absolutely immense and has been, thankfully, unparalleled. Juxtapose this with Castle bravo, when the device code named "Shrimp" was detonated, it overperformed to a massive degree, clocking in at 15 megatons. This is “small” compared to Tsar Bomba, but it is retarded to think that it is small. If I recall correctly, it was supposed to be 5 megatons. If you dig into the primary sources on nuclear devices and technology, you will find no end of instances where the one word summation is "Oops!" And these are the guys that actually knew what they were talking about. These are the guys actually doing the math and writing the manuals and not dealing with DEI bullshit.
All of these guys are gone. The guys that apprenticed under them are gone. The guys that trained under the apprentices of them are gone. The guys that replaced the apprentices under the ones they trained are gone, though a few of them are still alive7. So anyone that claims to be an expert, anyone that is actually an expert, anyone that actually works with the technology and the support infrastructure thereof, all of them are not much different than a collection of priests and wizards safeguarding a black box that they are not allowed to physically touch, had nothing to do with building it or putting anything inside, and follow instructions written generations before them about how to treat the box, how to carry it around, and which prayers to say to keep the box magical. Suspending the metaphor, this is a significant issue because nuclear devices have to be torn down and rebuilt at different intervals. Certain component parts cannot be fixed and have to be replaced, other ones require some pretty expensive and complex processes to be fixed or tested or recharged or what have you. Setting aside all of the controversial things I have written here, the unassailable truth regarding nuclear devices is that if you don't test them, they don't actually work, they might half go off, they might double go off, but they don't work in the sense that you definitely know what's going to happen when you push that red button. So we find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of competency when it comes to nuclear arsenals.
There are people who post too much8, and they require constant fodder to farm engagement. So yes, some people talking about the competency crisis are snake oil sales women. As well, there are people who take every little accident & mistake and pretend it is because black people are handed degrees they haven't earned9. So in that sense, yes, it is a little bit like global warming in the same way that whenever we have a mild winter or a cold summer, a bunch of people raise their eyebrows and act like they built the powerpoint for An Inconvenient Truth. The climate is changing and it has almost nothing to do with human activity or technology; anthropogenic climate shift is a complete spook. Nonetheless, the climate is changing, just as it always has and always will until the end of the Earth. We will have to adjust the infrastructure of society if we are to persist at the current levels of population.
The real competency crisis is the managers we have had along the way. Yes, when you put Chanikwa in the cockpit, things might go terribly wrong. But the real crisis is not the airplane smashing into the ground, it is the systems, policies, practices, and structures that put Chanikwa into the cockpit. Counterintuitively, the competency crisis is not about dumb people in the wrong place, it is about smart, evil people in exactly the right place, right being defined as where they want to be, and that being a place they should never be allowed. You could get rid of every single diversity hire, and in 6 months you will not be in the same place you were before, you will actually be somewhere magnitudes worse.
One of the reasons certain folks might consider the Competency Crisis exaggerated or fake is that they have a fake job in a fake world doing gay things for gay people. Lest we forget, Musk axed ~80% of Twitter employees to let the sink out, and the app continued to stagger forward, making just as many people screen addicted and mad as before10. What were those people doing for the company? How many other companies could dramatically reduce headcount and not negatively impact the core business? This extends to Society as well. If we get the Trumpenreich for Christmas and Santa doesn’t bait & switch us with a coal presidency, there’s a chance the meaningless migrants cluttering up or country will start to exit stage Hard Right, and most likely things will not only be fine, they will become demonstrably better11.
We are able to handle excessive saturation of meaningless migrants precisely because highly competent individuals were gathered together and given the opportunity to profit from cooperation. Amazing structures, tangible and ethereal, were constructed and deployed, then left to run requiring only minimal upkeep and occasional maintenance. This could be performed by a miniscule number of apprentices and inheritors of the secret flames of “don’t put it down, put it away” and “the plan we make is the path we take. As the regime of reliability marched forward in time, bigger and more complicated things could be built because the fundamentals were so sound. Those builders took it for granted that the fundamentals would be maintained because why wouldn’t they be?
The fundamentals weren’t maintained because that is the strict realm of the White man. Not because other colored men can’t do it12, but because with very rare exception they won’t do it. “Competency Crisis” is just another term for White Flight, which itself is a hilarious switcheroo performed by journalists and media. The common belief is that Whitey saw a few black bodies and fled for the suburbs because they didn’t want to spice they chicken. In reality, Whites extended their hands in friendship, got their fingers cut off, then got arrested when they started using their good hand to grab a baseball bat; of course they fled. The same thing will happen with bedrock industry and services: incompetent, violent, incapable morons will be bussed into the trades, they will make things terrible (YOU ARE HERE), the middle age middle management White guys will get tire of being vilified and punished for trying to work with the morons, and then they will be gone and pet minorities and libtard women will bemoan how muh racism done crash-ed de airplanes.
This is a pretty big presumption on my part. So-called White flight was only an option because Whites had somewhere to run to. If the foundation of modernity is allowed to continue crumbling from the insidious percolation of postmodernity before some kind of self-perpetuating technology can swoop in to save the current crop of retard billionaire scions and the entourage class, the subsequent collapse will be protracted and underwhelming, at least within the framework of Brezhnevian Decay. If, on the other hand, geopolitics comes to global fisticuffs, their may be a rebirth of “trial & error at speed and at scale.”
Be careful which one you hope for.
There is literally no human way to fathom this sequence in terms of time progressed, which is a big part of why every device is an experiment, and probably always will be.
Two jews walk into a bar, one from South Africa and the other from Mandatory Palestine (stop me if you’ve heard this one)
I think... I am writing this as I stand in a field and yell at chickens and bees, pulling everything from my spotty memory
And if there are, they are in North Korea and Russia, Not Europe and the United States
Thank God
They made it out. There is a interesting proof of what I'm saying here contained within the Chernobyl TV show: there’s this scene where three divers have to go into the belly of the beast to do something, and the show makes it seem like they are giving up their futures as heroes because there's no way they can survive what they are about to confront. They absolutely were heroes, Russia always has lots of heroes, but they came out of it completely unscathed. I don't think they even died of cancer in their old age. This doesn't mean radiation is a spook, it's just precisely what I said before: poorly understood.
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Hidieously & hilariously often, but not always
Actually, I think it’s grown? I don’t know, I have no idea who to believe on anything anymore
Speaking to the wife about this: imagine what the normie mind might get up to when it sees illegals getting re-migrated, then starts thinking about black yoofs milling about and being violent rapist murder thieves. Maybe the deportation thing could be iterated…
presumably, allegedly, hypothetically