Several people have suggested that I apply for a job in the Trump
administration. That's very flattering, and it's provoked me into
thinking about the list of reasons why that would be a potential
disaster.
First off, I don't need to apply on some random website. I've worked
with Steve Bannon in the past, and we have a good relationship. I was
in his movie Generation Zero, and we corresponded frequently up until
a few months ago when he was still editor at Breitbart, where my daily
articles are cross-posted. So he already knows who I am and where I
am.
But I already have a job. I was unemployed for two years because of
massive age discrimination in the computer industry. I was going to
run out of money within a few more months, and at my age that would
literally be the end of me. But six weeks ago, by some miracle, I got
a really good job as Senior Software Engineer. It's a very
interesting and challenging project, and it pays well too. And I have
a good relationship with the team I'm working with and with my
managers, all of whom are younger.
So I could imagine a disaster where I quit my current job to take some
other job, lost the new job, and then ended up out on the street
again, with no hope in sight.
And indeed it's very likely that I would be quickly fired, for the
following reasons:
- I have absolutely no political skills whatsoever, nor do I want
any.
- I'm a very prickly person to deal with, as everyone in this forum
already knows.
- I piss people off constantly, as everyone in this forum already
knows.
- People on the left and people on the right are both contemptuous
of Generational Dynamics.
- I do not "suffer fools gladly," to use the Biblical phrase.
- I'm obnoxious and paranoid, and I'm offensive to Gen-Xers and
Millennials, many of whom hate me just as a matter of principle.
- Even if I try, I'm unable to stick to a political party line for
more than 45 seconds.
- Imagine the situation where someone in the media realizes that a
person in the administration says that with 100% certainly there will
be a world war, led respectively by the US and China.
I'm thinking of that story from 2014 where North Korea's child
dictator Kim Jong-un decided to get rid of his uncle and mentor, Jang
Song-thaek. According to the story, Jang was stripped naked and
thrown live into a cage with 120 hunting hounds that had been starved
for five days, where he was completely ripped apart and eaten.
That's what would happen to me in a political job.