RICHARD DAWKINS - "THE ANCESTOR'S TALE" DEN NOTLAR

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ONCE UPON A TIME ...

Once upon a time, far away from here, at a very different time, in the land of Arcadia on the continent of Pangea, there was a forestry organization. One of the jobs of this organization was to collect seeds from the trees they select specially and to grow special seedlings from these seeds to establish progeny tests. In these tests, they tried to find the best growing trees by measuring the growing trees from time to time, and they target faster growing forests with the results they obtained.

Someone renewed one of the tests. This test became one of the tests with the highest survival percentage. In time, the Silly Man, who was seated in a chair to manage these works, commissioned a mathematician to follow these tests. The Silly Man is the man who could not understand what was done in the workplace where he worked for 25 years, and he would not be able not understand even if he worked for another 25 years. The Silly Man lacked an independent intelligence and a sense of fairness, and knew no shame. In a short while that mathematician screwed things up as best he could, but retired from the age limit before he could even add insult to injury. This time it was up to an engineer who thought that sitting at a desk and running two software packages was forestry and tree breeding.

What happened after all? While the seedlings coming out of the seeds that came flying from outside to the established test should have been cut, half of the thousands of special seedlings that were in the test and should not have been cut for many years were cut off. 

So what happened to the Silly Man and the other engineers? Nothing! Because in the land of Arcadia, wasted public resources and wasted time were not important issues at all. The Silly Man, who was main responsible person for these works, and other engineers continued to sit in their seats as if nothing had happened.

Fortunately, such incompetence and inexperience do not occur in our country, and such misfortunes never happen to us! Let's say that such a thing happens to be occuring in our country... Those responsible are made to pay for the damages they have caused, disciplinary punishments are given, they are immediately blown out of their seats, and many many more and etc, etc, etc...


Inspired by the article Merit in Forestry

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