One of the major reasons I would never work in defense. If I have to prove my worthiness to a clearance system that’s not far off from witchcraft and magic spirits, yeah, I’m gonna pass. Good luck finding intelligent people to work that kind of job.
They know it's just part of the system, and the routine.
These folks have a slightly different mindset, and, I think, view procedures as important to weed out people who might cut corners, lean into their ego (how dare they make ME take a polygraph), or be careless with information. A nice side effect of this process is it selects for humility, openness, and conscientiousness.
And they view the work they do as hugely important for the security of their nation. Including those who laugh at them for their chosen profession.
They were some of the most professional, conscientious, diligent, and excellent technologists I've ever worked with. Definitely on par with anyone at FAANGs or startups that I've work in.
Or perhaps it selects for submissive, controllable automata that will go along with anything, with no limit on absurdity. Your rationalization of this stupidity is embarrassing.
But I do want to dispell the idea that people are less intelligent, less capable, or somehow mindless just because they disagree with you about this (Or OP), and choose to be part of it.
> They were some of the most professional, conscientious, diligent, and excellent technologists I've ever worked with. Definitely on par with anyone at FAANGs or startups that I've work in.
such a shame they choose the most absolute evil actor to use those qualities for. which brings me to
> conscientious
yeah.... I think its pretty much impossible not to know what evil lives openly in those places