Not a link to an article, just the linkedin signup page. Too bad linkedin has declined in usefulness, it was almost getting good. Anyway, pure political poser

Not a link to an article, just the linkedin signup page. Too bad linkedin has declined in usefulness, it was almost getting good. Anyway, pure political posers are nothing new. Not everybody has it in them to actually make worthwhile efforts, or make efforts worthwhile to anyone but themselves. Plus most BS proponents are not in the pure category, with significant to considerable raw ability but who still draw from the BS deck when threatened or with opportunities that might fall to truly higher quality operators instead. Often motivated most strongly by greed, and without real value-creating talent or productive performance to fall back on, there's not much else they can do to survive. A great many have been this way for life, and know it well, therefore have a lifetime honing their survival skill. Some get especially good at inserting themselves into the background BS of particulary vulnerable or susceptible bureaucracies, where they can often thrive (exclusively to their own advantage). They sometimes accomplish this without becoming a destructive enough parasite to be well recognized by those who should care. And sometimes those who should care, actually don't care to begin with, or have had their doubts diverted by carefully crafted BS fields. For technical or scientific concepts to thrive instead, there must be none of these BS operators between the technical creators and the resources the creators rely on (such as funding resources from capitalists, income from clients, or customers).