Infusing the Evil Proving once again that the evil is impotent and depends on the support of the good for its survival: Fixing what ails most government sites, Mr. Dickerson [the Google engineer] said, is not unlike the task that he faced in the winter of 2013 when he arrived in Columbia, Md., the nerve center of HealthCare.gov. White House officials said Mr. Dickerson would become the deputy chief information officer of the federal government and the administrator of the United States Digital Services Team, a small group of technology experts whose job will be to fix the government’s websites. Every doctor whose life will now be made harder, every patient who needlessly suffers or dies, every business and individual more efficiently hounded by the IRS, every subversive better tracked by the government -- all of that human wreckage is now on Mr. Dickersons head. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality—and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. (Galt in _Atlas Shrugged_) One can hope that Mr. Dickerson, and the other individuals of ability, will stop the outrages by pronouncing a single word -- the word No. (Galt, in _AS_)
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:19:07 +0000
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