Law of Triviality:

Henkjan de Krijger

@henq · 29 Dec 2022

Law of Triviality:

A company needs a nuclear reactor and a bike shed. Few workers understand reactors, but all understand sheds, so the shed becomes the focus of debate as everyone tries to enact their vision.

Subjects that require the least attention tend to get the most.

You know the subjects and persons which are not interesting at all but that's all we're talking about ...

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Madeleine

2 years ago

The important things that really matter are forgotten or therefore disappear into the background.

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naf1971naf

2 years ago

We are living in an era in which a lot of importance is given to things that for my way of seeing are insignificant, I see this amazement in the artistic environment, I also very much agree with what you think @Mevrouw Stip.

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Mevrouw Stip...

2 years ago

That's how governments and political parties work. focus so hard on something that everyone is busy with it so that they can keep other things out of their attention and then do what they want with it later. The scary thing is that the masses just follow and agree. Too bad that this is the society we're trying to live in.

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