Riding a dead horse
The Dakota Indians knew better than present day governments:
"Progress" to date has more than a few of the following
"solutions" implemented instead of looking at what the
real problems were.
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from
generation to generation, says that when you discover that
you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
In modern education and government, however, a whole range
of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing Riders.
- Threatening the horse with termination.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses.
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
- Re-classifying the dead horse as "living, impaired".
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed.
- Providing additional funding and/or training to increase
the dead horse's performance.
- Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders
would improve the dead horse's performance.
- Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be
fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and
therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line
of the economy than do some other horses.
- Re-writing the expected performance requirements for all horses.
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Hence, no progress and the beatings will continue until moral improves.