"serious" at a superficial level. He never understood what he was doing, and went around smashing things indiscriminately, often in a way that was more expensiv

"serious" at a superficial level. He never understood what he was doing, and went around smashing things indiscriminately, often in a way that was more expensive (e.g., laying off federal workers who were paid for doing nothing for months, then rehired when someone realized that they were in fact doing something valuable).