TruthHate

Bureaucrats Hate Goodness Truth & Beauty (Art & People)

Visited the Botanical Gardens which I love, both inside and outside. It is a national and world treasure beyond measure or description. Deficiencies, however, are everywhere evident due to omnipresent sloppy management.

Isn’t it always so where the essentially evil nature of man exerts itself? Yes, as Lincoln the politician said, “There is good in every man.” But he knew full well, what he didn’t state, that there is a whole lot of evil in every person as well, and a real whole lot in some.

For example, the labels in front of the plants are often carelessly placed so you are often unsure to which plant they apply, what carelessness. And the silly frog croak that comes from the speakers is so phony it degrades and disgraces the whole place. How about some fine classical music if anything at all. Or even if it was a variegated melange of forest sounds if might make some sense, but just that lone frog making the same sound over and over doesn’t do justice to the multi-multi-million dollar layout of the place. Now these are small complaints and if that was all, I might not be writing this at all. Though even a small thing that impact millions of people has a cumulative effect that adds up considerably.

But, worst of all is the www.usbg.org website that represents the Botanical Gardens of the US Government, (which is located a stones throw from the Capital building itself,) to the world. It has these very few skimpy pictures that don’t enlarge to full screen the way they should. This is just plain mean.

Bandwidth is cheap and getting cheaper all the time and it is ideally suited to bringing the wonderful things of this world to poor people everywhere. It can change the whole planet and our future, that is how powerful and cheap it is. It can supply the education for the needy children that they desperately need for the survival of the planet.

Yet, despite this obvious simple truth, ALL the websites of ALL the museums, paid for, I might add, entirely with taxpayer funds in one way or another, simply, flatly, and adamantly,  refuse to do this low cost thing, which act on their part effectively locks out 99.99% of everyone on earth, including American taxpayers who pay for all of this.

This outrage is perpetrated on folks and children who can never ever in their lifetimes actually afford to take time off from their schools and work, (and paying taxes) to come to and visit these wonderful educational places.

It effectually prevents the people of this nation and the world, (who BTW pay for all these expensive toys as every dime of the funding of these museums and such is taxpayer money in one way or another) especially those in the US from EVER in their lives appreciating and learning from the enormously expensive offerings of these great treasures.

Just this act alone, nakedly visible to all on their websites, shows clearly the hate and contempt of the bureaucracy, generally, for all those 99.99% of humanity who cannot ever personally visit these places, it hits especially the weakest and most vulnerable poor of the entire earth who of all people most need this sort of enrichment that the computer is ideally suited to bring to them in an astoundingly low cost manner.

A crusade on behalf of the poor children of America and the whole world, to force Congress to correct this meanness alone would be worth the expenditure of any one’s whole life.

And the fix is so very very cheap that it hurts even more that they ALL flatly refuse to do it. My suspicion was that they did it to increase the sales of their miserable DVDs, but when I checked the few to none DVDs they produced, even those DVDs were careful to contain only very small pictures that could not be enlarged. Typical was the National Museum that I researched carefully. I found they have consciously blocked the software from being able to enlarge the pictures and prevented all copying. All the others are doing the same thing for pitiable pathetic and false reasons.

The righteous cause of pursuing the FORCING of these malignant hateful bureaucracies to serve the people of this nation and world for once in their miserable hateful lives would be worth all the time left in any of our lives.

How can we be TOO tough on those in power who hate people in such mean ways that they want to deny the world’s children access via computer in a meaningful way to these incredibly beautiful things that they don’t own, but that the taxpayers entirely paid for? This gives the expression, “Dog in the manger” a whole new level of meaning.

We are only talking here about putting all this beauty up on computer and allowing the enlargement of the pictures to full screen size. Instead the favorite new “whine” of the Museum bureaucracy is now to charge high fees for that every visitor must pay every time. This alone is the measure of these types of people.

Yes, I’ve discussed this with management at the Smithsonian and they just say, essentially, “Hell no!” and for no good reason at all. It is like they are saying to people, “if you want to see these great things you must spend thousands and thousands of dollars and leave your home, school, and job, and come here and then, maybe, if you pay a stiff fee, we will let you look at these things.”

Clearly only a tiny number of Americans, let alone the poor of the world can ever do this. To them the bureaucrats say, “Drop dead!”

The cost to fix this would be mere pennies of the multi millions they spend every year, much of it on gigantic salaries and perks such that we have money mismanagement scandals raging around these people constantly.

If we can’t fix this simple no-brainer problem, how can we fix anything else in government or the world? 

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