THE INEPT "WORD GEEK" IS BACK IN TOWN

http://paladinplanet.blogspot.com/2012/02/ineptocracy.html

No, I am not here to talk politics, I'm here to laugh at them.  I got a big kick out of the email that sent me the news about this "new" word.  I thought it was new, so I laughed as I was reading the definition.  Then,as I got about halfway through it, I knew that I was reading something that had a lot of possibilities, if not necessarily a ages-old name.  As it turns out it describes a lot of organizations. Many non-profits, like the government, like the schools, like the churches and maybe a few more that you readers may be able to fish out of your very own grey matter.
In many ineptocracies the leaders are not elected.  Oh no, that would be too dangerous,say the inept executives who are about to promote one of their sycophantic inepts to a higher position so that he will not cause them any more trouble by being more inept than they.  You see, in a true ineptocracy, the leaders need to keep the more inept (incompetent?) around so that their high level ineptitude can get perceived as brilliance.  Look around.  You'll see that I am not making this up.  It's even more complicated than that.  The higher carriers of ineptitude need to have the lesser inepts (no, I'm confused now... that double negative just changed the meaning of my thought.)  Let's do that again.  OK?  The higher level of inepts have to keep the more inepts than they around so they, the inept executives, can be convinced that they are competent enough to make themselves look brilliant against the background of the army of inepts that they lead.  That's what makes it impossible to send an incompetent away.  The leaders need them to make themselves look competent.
My favorite move is the one I mentioned above.  Promote the most incompetent subordinate to give him/her a chance to prove him/herself.  After all, the individual has now proven his/her ineptitude for the last seven years.  We know that there must be something there for the good of the organization.  It's just that no one has seen it yet.  We should stop complaining about the proven ineptitude and do something positive for the individual.  Show that we appreciate the non-results and give the super star incompetent a chance to do great things for the world.
We have a similar situation in the government.  The ineptitude is enshrined in the electorate.  You don't believe it?  If you're so smart, I dare you to go out and have a five minute intelligent conversation with any "man on the street."  You can try it with a woman, it won't matter.  Ineptitude is an equal opportunity quality.
This ubiquitous characteristic of human behavior is also an ecumenical quality.  It is a Christian and a non-Christian trait.  It is present in non-profit organizations and is rampant in for-profit ones too.  Corporations are not exempt and of course, governments and their related operations are the very organizations which caused the coining of the term in the first place.
By the way,you might want to abandon your pipe dream of moving to another country where competence and aptitude reign.  HA!
Good luck.  There is no such thing.  So, I leave you with these philosophical musings.  Maybe sometime we can muse and opine a bit about the sister behavior, "Onthetakitocracy."  You can't move away from that one either.  
If you want to have some fun with this subject, click on the link at the top.  The blogger there did a good job with this thought.

JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE JUDGED [MATT. 7; 1ss]

I have to begin this by saying that all my life I have been told to make choices.  I have been told to learn how to make good choices.  I was going to say "judicious" choices, but that would get me ahead of myself.  One of my first pieces of advice came from my mother.  I had been in school for a very short time.  I was not yet seven years old.  It was the first time that she advised me, "When you choose friends, always choose someone better that you."  Now isn't that a license to judge people?  I think it is.  In my life I have gone from there to the bottom line to not suffer fools lightly.  To do that, you have to judge.  It is impossible to get through life without judging. In fact, it is impossible to get through life without being judged.  At least that's what it feels like.  That is the rub.  We keep being scolded into not judging people on the one hand, and then we get scolded for bringing a negative judgement down upon ourselves for some silly reason.  
Through the years, here's what I have come to learn.  If you evaluate the factual output of another person's human behavior, in my book that is acceptable, nay, necessary judging.  [Read the Bible reference well and you'll see what I mean..."good measure, packed down...] It is a fact that there are, in fact, inept, incompetent and unscrupulous people on this planet.  Most of us have no problem with these individuals as long as they stay within the boundaries of what skills they do possess and do not hinder our efforts toward perfection.  Throughout my life, I have never had a problem telling people that they had to move on to another line of work, or another environment where they could get better results from their life activity.  It is important that everyone do what falls within the limits of the skill set that has been given, received and developed.  That's it.  
That goes for me too, by the way.  I have been told a few times in my life that I had to move on because I was a fish in a bird's nest.  Every time it happened, I knew that the person telling me the truth was in fact, hitting the truth nail on the head.  In fact, I am still on very good terms with them all.  For one thing, they are happy that I am no longer a thorn in their side, so we can still be friends.  The last time I was told the truth about my performance, I agreed with the man and even gave him some tips on how to deal with the fallout from my poor performance.
I am convinced, and ever will be, that there is no better predictor of future behavior that the behavior of the past.  Like they say in politics,
"The past is prologue."  There is nothing morally wrong with this type of evaluation.  We run into trouble when we overstep our bounds and start to impute motives for behavior, rather than to evaluate the factual output as detached from the motive (intent).  So, my life effort is to go on judging, evaluating, choosing what and how to do things, for myself first.  The person who is honest with self is never surprised at the judgement/evaluation of others who comment about the factual output of behavior.  Then when the man tells you that you have to move on because you are more of a liability than an asset, you should not be surprised.  You should have moved on by using your own initiative before being told.
I could go on and on about this, but the essential part of my thought has been placed on the table.  If you want to hear the rest, you have to promise not to cry at my funeral.