Interested in an analogy comparison of the Washington DC Capital anarchy scenario?
The Chicago Tribune articles today, too many to choose from, point blame at President Trump along with a host of opinions of the event by various groups of intriguers. These articles brought to my mind some reasoning I experienced during my manufacturing working career.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to related an ancient proverb and an analogy of what working people experience every day in a manufacturing plant to produce components from iron ores to high precision tolerance widgets.
King Solomon
Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men. (Proverb 22:29)
What’s My Point?
Most people who never experienced working in a manufacturing plant that requires engineering blueprint details, manufacturing processes, and quality controls required to produce a high precision widget do not understand the details of how a widget is manufactured.
For example, converting iron ore to be mixed with various elements to obtain steel strength tensile requirements by melting in extreme high temperature ovens and pouring molten metals is just the beginning of a casting required for a widget.
Converting the steel raw material next requires an engineer to examine a blueprint of specifications stipulating dimensions and tolerance in the thousands of inches. Then writing a manufacturing process to route the raw steel product through various machining process which could number perhaps 30 with various quality inspections taking place to test for tolerances and hardness specifications both before and after heat treatments process to harden the part to the engineering specifications.
Every process requires human trained skills and interactions with high precision maintain machinery and precision heat treatment furnaces to produce a widget.
And because both humans and machines are involved, there is always a risk that some unplanned will occur and the widget will have to be scrapped and the who process started again.
The reasons pf why something unplanned happens sometimes even after all the designing planning time and energy expended is the point of my analogy.
Analogy
While employed as a purchasing agent and fairly knowledgeable and experienced in the processes of a casting vendor qualifications to produce a very large casting required for a very high precision widget we would machine into the blueprint precision tolerances.
I called a vendor in to a meeting with an engineer and quality control managers to have him explain how his plant failed to detect a small crack that appeared during our machining of the casting.
During the meeting the vendor sat and listened as we mercilessly “poured hot coals” on him and brought up details of how his plant had failed even though they had an impeccable reputation for supplying high precision castings and rigorous inspection procedures and industry qualifications.
After listening and trying to explain what might have happened, which frankly, he had no way of pinpointing the exact reason, he all of a sudden stood up and said in a calm tone,
“Should I take off my shirt so you guys can whip me for the only reason I am about to give you. And that is in spite of every precaution we employed, sometimes shit happens.”
In My Opinion
What happened in the Washington Capital in spite of all the preparations and planning what might happen resulted to be inadequate? Or the political finger pointing and accusations of various politicians? Or whether what occurred was preplanned by intriguers?
If we really want to know the truth, we will never know unless an investigation to uncover the details similar to uncovering what might occur in a machining process.
Or will after an extensive investigation will the truth be similar to an explanation a casting vender gave in the meeting in my story analogy which was “sometimes shit happens?”
If you consider the variables of thousands of people with various human mind sets along with heated or heat-treated anger, frankly in my opinion, it could have been far worse scenario than what occurred.
What we should consider in retrospect though is what did not happen during the 2020 elections was perhaps similar to details similar to engineering blueprints details.
The election workers did not follow the election laws (blueprints) and that led to the real reason or cause or reason of the Washington anarchy.
Or in other words or what should or would have happened should have been the same procedure as what happens in a manufacturing plant when quality control detects a flaw in the widget.
The widget gets scrapped and the manufacturing process starts all over again.
If Interested
Read my previous post the Source link below of what is the root cause of why we have unskilled workers wandering around in Washington DC and all around in our Nation.
You Decide
When the time comes for the opinions or intriguers to meet and explain before the Supreme “King,” their maker, to measure his or her skills He blessed them with compared to their story in life, will he or she be judged to be “worthy” or “obscure?”.
Wise or foolish analogy?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
Source Links
Previous Post
Root Causes of Anarchy? King Solomon Blog – Rudy u Martinka (rudymartinka.com).
Yes, indeed. Sometimes it happens!
Blessings.
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Tom,
Thanks for the reblog and comments.
When we discern all the time and folly that has occurred in retrospect, in my opinion, it would have been much wiser to have scrapped the results because Trump isn’t even out of office yet and already more divisiveness is or already is in the making to prevent closure on the 2020 election.
https://rudymartinka.com/2021/01/09/churning-or-shaka-of-trump-king-solomons-blog/.
Sad.
s and goodwill blogging,t
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What the hell did I just read?!?!?!?? 👀
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Sammano
Thanks for your comment. You asked what did you just read?
Perhaps an analogy definition from Merriam Webster might help your question.
“a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.’.
I compared the Washington anarchy to how private business manufactures widgets and all the unexplainable things that can happen while either manufacturing a widget or to administering an election.
My main point is the entire root cause of the gatherings was because unlike what occurs in private industry when the result is a defect occurs, the widget gets scrapped and the process is started over again from the beginning process.
Or in other words, the root cause was that certain States did not follow their election laws and if they did as the do in private industry, there would never have been an angry crowd gathered outside the Capital.
However, that was not what happened in the 2020 election. The States that did not follow the election laws were accepted and the end result is a lot of people believe their votes became meaningless.
Some people get very angry when they believe their government in not fair and just and that fuels people behaviors to not be fair and just either.
The anarchy could have been avoided if the States that did not follow their own laws, just scrapped the election results and started over again with a new election and followed the laws of their State.
Or in other words, people believe their government approved a defective election result that can be compared to a crack occurring in the Constitution of the USA which can lead to failure of a widget or an unfair and unjust administration of the Constitution laws in the USA.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I really appreciated this post Rudy, very well done. There are so many moving parts to Wednesday’s fiasco that it’s impossible for anyone to have a definitive answer as to what went wrong. Yet the left, naturally and most of the media have decided Trump, his supporters and conservatism in general is to blame. Their narrative is extremely disingenuous and dangerous as lit will only create more trouble down the road.
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Tricia,
Thanks for your comment. I agree “Their narrative is extremely disingenuous and dangerous as lit will only create more trouble down the road.”
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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“Shit happens” simply explains the unexplainable, plain and simple. If we choose not to indulge in the details for either practicality, logistical impossibility, time limitations, priority, expediency, or expense.. whatever, then we assign “shit happens” simply to move on… hopefully making an effort not to repeat that formula. It’s like the botched NASA satellite programming that caused the device to crash because someone didn’t convert inches to metric or vice versa. Yep.. easy to find that culprit.. but in the end.. ‘shit happens.’ Oops.
No Rudy.. no investigation is going to reveal that the Capitol insurrection was just a ‘shit happens’ event. Way too many humans involved leaving their mark.
But hey.. not to worry.. anyone being arrested for this event can be pardoned by Trump…. if the charges are Federal.
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Doug,
I would be more interested in reading the reasons why the arrested stormed the Capital. than all the rushed judgements I am reading in the news.
In my opinion, the press has “moved on” and judged Trump already without any investigation or report from the arrested parties as to why they stormed the Capital.
Check my comment if interested I just made in tomes post titled:
THE VIEW OF A RESPECTED PASTOR ON THE STORMING OF THE CAPITOL
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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