There is another metaphor from fiction that would seem to apply, from the Douglas Adams series The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” In book #3 (I think), our heroes find themselves on the “C Ark” from Golgafrincham, carrying the entire planet’s supply of “middle-men, managers, account executives and factotums” who had been tricked aboard and sent away by the two-thirds of the home population, who, thereupon, ended their long dark era and entered a golden age.
It's from Book #2 of the Trilogy (of five books), it's the "Ship B", and the biggest error of the Golgafrinchans was that they included in the "Ship B" the telephone cleaners - they civilization was wiped out by a bug that lived in telephone dirt. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
