Understanding trump world "scientifically"
The real reason DOGE guy is departing ...
For a few years in my early career, I worked for a high-security government contractor where most of the employees were PhD physicists and chemists. I was a numbers person and understood pathetically little of what they actually did but knew they were successful financially at doing it.
The firm had been founded by a charismatic leader and one day one of my chemist friends explained the mystifying personal dynamics of the company. I don’t know how this squares with the actual science, but here’s how he explained it to me and I believe it is relevant to trump-world.
Alpha Particle Scattering Theory and management dynamics
Atoms possess a small, dense, positively charged nucleus … in our example, that is the charismatic leader. Electrons … senior managers … revolve around the leader, held in orbit by his charisma and power. So far, so good.
Over the years, I’ve occasionally tried to read the science of this theory and the first part fit what I knew about the company. The leader was the magnetic force holding everything together. What happened next, rather regularly, was what my chemist friend was trying to explain to me. This may or may not parallel the science, however, it’s how he told the tale.
Occasionally, an electron (manager) is drawn closer to the nucleus, basking in the attention and growing more and more powerful. This movement, however, also creates an anomaly in the force field. The closer that electron gets, the more its orbit disturbs the power structure of the leader and the other electrons (managers).
At some point the manager gets too close
and is rocketed out into space, basically lost and forgotten.
Sound familiar?
When you think back over what we’ve seen of trump in the past decade, it fits. People are perfect, smart guys, doing great jobs, and then suddenly they are gone, dismissed as stupid, incompetent losers. The DOGE-guy seems to be in the middle of the process … we’ll see what happens as he exits.
As I watch the trump-world dynamics, I wonder which electron is going to get blown out next? I’m hanging onto one of my favorite memes from earlier in the campaign to see how it turns out. I have several favorites for the top of the list but my favorite is Stephen Miller. Unfortunately, he seems pretty entrenched.
None of this made any sense to me the words all ran together and just couldn't get my head around it
I dunno about 'stop.' I think 'start' is better. Like things I posted:
"Where are you billionaires who have the power to reshape things? How can you behave so indifferently? It’s not even altruism that needs to be top of your list; it can be self-preservation. Serve yourselves and you lose your playing field. Instead, create a world where all you’d encounter would be loveliness."
"Now, get everyone working on the same problem. Have a launch for it: ALL FOR ALL DAY, when all at once humanity shifts to becoming a cooperative body. Get billionaires to make this happen. Make it for real. Just do it. Get We Are The World sort of participation, with major celebrities joining in. Come on. It’s to save us."