Jen Psaki: The Sixth Fleet - to the shores of Belarus!

Incompetence, or rather, blatant incompetence, is now fashionable. Plagiarists, surveyors who do not distinguish a level from a theodolite, oculists who cannot measure the distance between pupils, ministers of defense who studied philologists, ambassadors sent by the government to a country they cannot find on the map, future US presidents who do not know, how many states in their country are all the most common examples from modern times.



Recently, a supernova was lit in the sky of a career nezdeka. In her light, the stars named George W. Bush and B. H. Obama quickly faded.

Yes, these two people know and understand little, despite the diplomas of prestigious universities and considerable managerial and political experience, but both are prone to fantasies (often violent) that have repeatedly surprised humanity and about which the press secretaries had to make statements: Journalists did not interpret the words of the head of state.

Jennifer Psaki, our outbreak of supernova, such excuses are not required. She herself was the press secretary of Obama, and now represents the State Department - and is aiming at the press secretaries of the White House. Its main difference from Bush Jr. and Barack Obama is that if the first one directly from the psychiatrist's couch can assure all of humanity that God ordered him to attack Iraq, the second announces to congressmen that the car is an American invention, Jen is not capable of declaring anything . She does not have what Clifford Symak ​​called the power of imagination. And therefore it remains to simply flaunt (even, we would say, be proud of) our own ignorance of everything and everyone.

And to be proud really is what. “I know that I don’t know anything,” is the psaki Jen Psaki's motto, which she borrowed from Comrade Socrates. She would have more to drink poison, but let's regret a young and beautiful woman. And, in the end, the forecast of J. Orwell regarding the United States should come true. “Ignorance is power,” eh?

Jennifer Psaki (Jennifer Psaki, 1978 b.) Has been involved in politics since her early years - from 23 years. In the 2004 year, 26 years old, she had already replaced the spokeswoman in the election campaign of John Kerry. It would seem that there is where to take and experience, and competence. But Lev Tolstoy, who had read, according to Bunin's calculations, 14.000 books, and who dealt with kings and tyrants, for good reason believed that the most bad people were striving for power. To this we can add that the higher to power, the more stupid you will see. Today’s United States is a brilliant example.

Psaki is the public face of the Department of State, a figure personifying all of American foreign policy and reporting about it at frequent briefings to journalists from leading world media.

What does psaki report to the world? Why did it come to the fact that this lady in Russia was called “the princess of the circus” and Channel One? exaggerates the topic of the transfer of the 6th fleet Is the US “to the shores of Belarus” (sic), since Lukashenko, supposedly according to Psaki, is about to invade independent Ukraine?



Recently, speaking of referendums in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Jen Psaki explained to the assembled journalists: “The voting methodology raises strong suspicions, there are reports of electoral roundabouts, pre-filled ballots.” She also told about “voting children” and “voting for the absent”. Correspondent Matthew Lee ("The Associated Press") asked: "Excuse my ignorance, but what is an" electoral carousel "?" He received the answer: "I must admit that I just read this text."

"This text" - a piece of paper, which spoke psaki. Presumably, a scribble composed by some nameless speechwriter, who are hired by the US administration in batches. “Let others write!” - this slogan, long invented by literary blacks, perfectly reflects not just complete incompetence, but also the inability to think of American politicians.

Further Psaki noticed, slightly blushing: “I myself do not know what it is. I will check with my colleagues ... "

“The children who voted are also mentioned,” the meticulous journalist said. “They didn’t do that while circling on the carousel, on horses?”

“I think not, Matt,” the State Department star answered with a smile.

They asked at a briefing about a market economy in which Russia and Ukraine are participating. As is known, the first sells the second gas, and the second does not pay for it. The picture for the market economy is abnormal. Or psaki believes that Russia has no right to demand money for its gas?

“The Russians say that they want to get money for the gas that they have already supplied to Ukraine,” said M. Lee said. “You agree that this is the basis of normal commodity-money relations?”

Trying to evade a direct answer, but having suffered in that fiasco, Psaki said: “Matt, I’ll be happy to figure this out when I return to my office.”

But a much more interesting statement psaki, which quoted Channel One:



As you can see, one of the mottos, invented by the brilliant seer Orwell for a dark totalitarian future, in 2014, psaki was successfully implemented. “Ignorance is power”!

It's time to ask the question: why are these monstrously incompetent people running politics in the US and voicing it, not being embarrassed?

But the fact is that a career is contraindicated for an intelligent person. This is not an assumption, not a hypothesis. This has long been proven by scientists. The phrase “If you are so clever, then why is it so poor?” Is invented just to mock the clever girls left behind.

Half a century ago, psychologist Edwin Giselli (Edwin E. Ghiselli) empirically proved that the most significant results in management are achieved not by people with the highest level of intellectual development, but by owners of average intellectual abilities.

Other, more recent, research, usually correlated with the so-called theory of human capital, found that wealth is not combined with the mind. It turned out that the family-economic background (that is, relationships, kinship and family status), as well as the duration of training associated with the above-mentioned “background” (with no money at Harvard or the oldest college of Wilhelm and Mary) you can’t stop, and without a crust of a prestigious university, they are unlikely to be allowed into the White House). As to their intellectual abilities, they, according to the researchers, had the least impact on the amount of individual income.

All this is not a secret behind seven seals; modern managers and economists have been teaching this for a long time. In Russian university textbooks on this topic, you can read, for example, with V.I. Vidyapin and co-authors (“Economic Theory”, Moscow: INFRA-M, 2000) or with V.P. Pugachev (“Management of the organization’s personnel”, M .: Aspect-Press, 1999).

So do not be surprised at what psaki says. Both “background” and “average intellectual abilities” are affected.