If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you’d quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much as your time as you do, they’d fire her. If an organization developed its employees as poorly as you are developing yourself, it would soon go under. … There [...]
We’re slow, dumb, ape-like creatures, and we like to screw. We like to spawn. Even if it kills us all. – Outta Space by Paul Baines
The knowledge that produces power in organizations is not only technical and related to the work process, but also the knowledge of the organization’s social system or structure. People who are well placed in the communication network tend to be the central players in terms of power and influence. Consequently, we can determine that power [...]
We play upon the psychological superstitions and fears of the enemy. The method is very effective. – First Lieutenant Peter BoniQuoted in io9.com article Just like Uncle Sam says, traitors and Communists alike burn in hell.
Governance began as persistent theft, with the guy who led the best band of raiders becoming the boss. It was only after this point that rulers began to justify themselves as protectors. They were really just maintaining a monopoly over their human herds. – God Wants You Deadby Sean Hastings and Paul Rosenberg Behold, how [...]
Nobody in power appears to know how the Customer-Friendly system really works. – The Customer-Friendly System [comments] Nonsense. I’m keeping tabs on everything as we speak. (Proactively, I might add)
Turn it up! It’s obviously working! [T]he demonstrators clash with police, literally instigating fights with riot police sometimes, thinking it will further their cause. But the police don’t represent the interests behind any political agenda any more than the demonstrators do. They are there simply to maintain order while the protesters exercise their rights. The [...]
Twenty-six participants were given Aesop’s advert for hard work and another 26 were given Kafka’s more pessimistic tale. As predicted participants who read Kafka’s story perceived it as a threat to the way they viewed the world. They reacted to this threat by affirming their cultural identities more strongly than those who had read Aesop’s [...]
At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different – in [...]
Translation: Active Measures Demoralization: Can you trust America’s most trusted news channel..? Destabilization: A little anarchy in the streets. Crisis: Terror. Confusion. Fear. Normalization: Deus ex machina. Manufactured chaos resolves, embrace the savior apparatchik. Why send troops where “journalists” will suffice?
