Incompetnce
This book is very funny, if a little close to the bone. The plot is basically a sort of spy thriller and in that respect its not particularly good. The real genius is setting it in the near future where, by European law:
No person shall be prejudiced from employment in any capacity, at any level, by reason of age, race, creed or incompitence.
Rob Grant, one of the guys who wrote Red Dwarf, envisages a world where it is impossible to get anything done, with many Kafka-esque situations of extreme idiocy in feedback mode… He also picks up on the modern tendency to invent “syndromes” and “disorders”. For example: NSS or “Non-Specific Stupidity”, for those people who are stupid, but none of the other syndromes or disorders is applicable. They then get equal opportunities for jobs and promotions, meaning companies have to employ a certain percentage of “stupid” people.
Wonderfully farcical.
Add comment January 30th, 2006