I've been on the fringes of something recently that I won't get into to protect the guilty, except to say it doesn't have anything to do with my day job. As this thing goes on and on and on, I keep going back to this bit of truth:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
And yet, the errors in this thing keep compounding, as only two or three people involved appear to have any sanity regarding the project. Naturally, the sane ones keep getting shouted down. If you look at the demographics of who's doing the shouting, it gets even cringier. It's so bad that Grey's Law is implicated:
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
And of course, never forget Sayre's Law:
In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.
I think this thing has finally reached a resolution that will allow the players to step off the stage, take off their costumes, wipe off their makeup, and get notes from the director. And whoo boy, I cannot wait to see those notes.