“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.You can take that to the bank both ways.
“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Bullet Points
It's bad enough that the military is composed of "volunteers;" when they deliberately dumb themselves down, & know they are but don't stop, we can only see it as further proof of the death of the empire. Especially when combined w/ recent stories hysterically headlined "Fat Slob Young Americans Too Fat To Fight For Oil Interests & Other Capitalist Pigs."
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I've worked education conferences where PowerPoint was limited to a single introductory slide.
ReplyDeleteGreat sessions, I must say, especially since I had almost nothing to do.
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ReplyDeleteNice work if you can avoid it.