Gantt chart
A Gantt chart is a work of art that depicts hope and despair in horizontal bars under the guise of project management. In reality, it serves as an instrument of torture that exposes the gap between plan and reality under a harsh spotlight, a ritual of shirking responsibility by recording delays and blaming someone else. The arranged bars slice through the project like a fan of punishment blades, while red bars born of delay stage terror like trails of blood. Stakeholders chant the deceptive phrase “on schedule” as they gaze upon the chart, eventually intoxicated by the illusion of execution. Plans that fail to complete are deleted from the chart, sinking into oblivion as though they never existed.