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March 01, 2004
Donald Rumsfeld Psychobabble Generator
From a thread internal to the Borg, I was forwarded this entertaining bit of techno mocking.
As we know, there are known knowns... We also know there are known unknowns.Which may inspire me to do one of these for my personal troll Paul (a psycho commenter from over at Outside The Beltway).
...But there are also unknown unknowns.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
which insired me to hack
(defun do-rumsfeldisms ()
(interactive)
(dolist (noun '("we" "they"))
(dolist (verb '("know" "do not know"))
(dolist (verb2 '("are" "are no"))
(dolist (adj '("known" "unknown"))
(dolist (noun2 '("knowns" "unknowns"))
(insert
(format "\n\n As %s %s, there %s %s %s." noun verb verb2 adj noun2))))))))
then M-x do-rumsfeldisms gives
As we know, there are known knowns.
As we know, there are known unknowns.
As we know, there are unknown knowns.
As we know, there are unknown unknowns.
As we know, there are no known knowns.
As we know, there are no known unknowns.
As we know, there are no unknown knowns.
As we know, there are no unknown unknowns.
As we do not know, there are known knowns.
As we do not know, there are known unknowns.
As we do not know, there are unknown knowns.
As we do not know, there are unknown unknowns.
As we do not know, there are no known knowns.
As we do not know, there are no known unknowns.
As we do not know, there are no unknown knowns.
As we do not know, there are no unknown unknowns.
As they know, there are known knowns.
As they know, there are known unknowns.
As they know, there are unknown knowns.
As they know, there are unknown unknowns.
As they know, there are no known knowns.
As they know, there are no known unknowns.
As they know, there are no unknown knowns.
As they know, there are no unknown unknowns.
As they do not know, there are known knowns.
As they do not know, there are known unknowns.
As they do not know, there are unknown knowns.
As they do not know, there are unknown unknowns.
As they do not know, there are no known knowns.
As they do not know, there are no known unknowns.
As they do not know, there are no unknown knowns.
As they do not know, there are no unknown unknowns.
Posted by Azael at March 1, 2004 09:12 AM
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Comments
I've always found it intriguing that the one that Rumsfeld left out are the "unknown knowns". Like all the stuff that Condoleeza didn't know because she didn't read the information she was supposed to. All the advice that Rumsfeld ignored or never got because he was stovepiping his information through the Office of Special Plans.
Perhaps the cause of world peace will be best furthered by doing the courageous work of examining and uncovering the "unknown knowns".
Then, just maybe, the lifting and dissolution of internal repression may translate to external manifestation.
Posted by: jimm at March 1, 2004 07:15 PM
It's a recursive thing.
This whole "Dune" mentality (where Rumsfeld is a Mentat to the boy emperor) is really getting tiresome.
Posted by: Hal at March 1, 2004 07:56 PM
