dear washington DC - by el gato malo - bad cattitude

dear washington DC - by el gato malo - bad cattitude

"i know A LOT of these people. this is what most of my friends are like. they learn for a living. they pull systems apart, see them as functional wholes, and work 16 hour days reading arcane 1000 page descriptions until they understand. then they pull the underwear of whoever thought they understood this material up over their heads in an atomic wedgie and take over a space. it's just what you do if you're a person like that. it's compulsion. it's like breathing.

"these are 3 and 4 and 5 standard deviation people who have focus and talent in quantities they do not even have maps of in washington....

"moving into a novel systems or spaces and becoming better at it than the people currently there is what these people do. it's ALL they do. it's who and what they are....

"DC was able to deal with people like this in the past because there were only a couple. you could isolate them and use the systems against them. this is a mob. and that's a very different thing."