June 6, 2025

One of the short-cut methods of turning incompetence into virtue is to dictate results with no method of getting there. Supposedly, someone will find a method of producing the results, if enough force and violence are added to the equation.

Using force and violence to get results is a universal element of corruption. It's why the lower classes are being told to go to work, while they are already working. It's based on the assumption that whatever the unfathomable class is doing, adding force and violence to the equation will get more out of them.

It's analogous to the Nazis running out of energy and sending their military force to Russia to steal it. Since it happened to be wintertime, they froze in the process. Of course, the Nazis couldn't wait until spring, as they were out of energy.

It shows that predicting and evaluating cannot be replaced by force and violence. When predicting and evaluating, constructivity requires suitable processes for the purpose; and there is no place for force and violence in getting complex results. Which also means, there is no place for wars in solving problems.

That means the administrative element is supposed to make processes available, while the results work through the processes as needed. To eliminate the processes and dictate the result is replacing specialists with know-nothings in making decisions.

Even the most brilliant geniuses cannot replace processes with short-cut results, because information must be acquired in a sequential manner. Preliminary results are required to build upon in getting more complex results. Otherwise, the obstacles that are encountered require tearing everything down and starting over.

Both science and engineering require processes that start with preliminary testing before getting to complex procedures. For example, in researching yeast sporulation in graduate school, preliminary studies showed that the reason why the yeast would not form spores under known conditions was that acetate was a transcriptional repressor and the acetate needed to be removed by centrifugal washing. After that was determined, testing methods could be designed that included washing the cells. Before that, no one knew how to get the yeast to form spores. So no one could say, produce the spores, when no one knew how to.

That problem is true of all complex results. Testing is required to determine procedures. Dictating results without the procedures always results in failure and ruin. So administrators can only make conditions available; they can't dictate results.