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The Concubines Are Scrapping
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Sadly, this kind of trash is far more important to the average person than the things that matter (and this is hardly just an American phenomenon). It's mainly because the things that actually matter are much more complicated, and require effort to understand - whereas this kind of crap lends itself to quickly picking sides, and boosting one's ego momentarily by providing someone else to look down upon that your entire social circle is likely to agree with. The unfortunate reality is the majority of people just don't have it within them to deal with what really matters & prefer the distraction of mundane cat-fights to avoid having to face that fact.
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From bikeshed + -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp[1] and has spread from there to the software industry at large.