Robson: What can you do with fools?
Place them in positions of authority, apparently. I mean, look at Tuesday’s National Post front page. Theresa Tam, our chief medical technocrat, said well yes, vaccines sort of work but who really knows? Uh, we hoped you did. Then there was “’Everyone confused’ following flip-flops” about federal Bill C-10, whose purpose and content seem obscure even to the hapless minister trying to ram it through. And the cyberattack on the “main oil pipeline supplying the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.”
Putting aside idiots believing a solar panel can replace fossil fuels, can someone tell me who didn’t realize our energy infrastructure was spectacularly vulnerable? Alas, the surprisingly long list stems from a deeper and systematic, even willful, ignorance of economics.
I don’t know who originated the line that beehives attract both beekeepers and bears. But you don’t, or shouldn’t, need specialized training to see that computers, the internet and related technology brought spectacular increases in vital infrastructure command and control at the expense of spectacular increases in their vulnerability.
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