Posted by: Jon Henke on Thursday, March 31, 2005 Following up on Dale's "Dumbest NRO Article Ever" post about the comparison of the US government to a computer (or something), a friend sends me an alternate view. He writes...
Ah, but there was a point to the computer analogy; and an insidious one to boot (no analogy intended). It is contained in this paragraph: But an operating system alone does not make for a very functional computer or country. To serve the needs of its citizens, hundreds of programs must be implemented to handle the end-user's specific needs and wants. And here's where the partisan divide exists. The question of which programs best serve our needs is what makes our democracy function. It is for the voters to decide whether it's more important to have a strong firewall and virus-protection system or a program that redistributes your excess CPU cycles to other works projects. Rami Genauer has removed the original operating system (Representative Constitutional Republic v.1.27) and replaced it with a virus (Democracy.exe) where voters (hackers) can choose to redistribute excess CPU files (expropriate your private property) from virus-protection and firewall (essential national defense items) to other works projects (pour down the pestilent rat holes of the welfare state).
I'd try to work in a reference to the Blue Screen of Death which causes everything to just inexpicably stop working, but I think this analogy has gone about as far as it can usefully go. |
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