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Political Fairytales for Managerworld's Failchildren

3 points by bshepard 4y ago

bshepard 4y ago
There's seems like the key to the argument: "But managerworld is predictable, if nothing else, because it is processual, it relies on a heuristic to determine success and failure, to determine what needs iteration and what does not. They all descend from the mad principle of endless INCREASE. Increase profit Increase power Increase prestige Should any given project under managerial society fail to increase any of those 3 criterion according to the nearest most powerful supervising managers, it will be judged a failure, and cancelled or shelved or delayed."
- bshepard 4y ago
  Another passage that really sizzles: "The world of modern management is a world of continual surveillance and goal-oriented process. It is fundamentally harmonious, and offenses against its harmony are taken with great seriousness. It is a world of decorum, a world of process, a world of evaluation according to standards. It is obviously quite unlike the relationships of people under ‘normal’ conditions and almost all historical conditions. ‘Eurasianists’ see only its origins, and the insults inflicted upon their countrymen and fellow-travelers by it, though they seek to master this system so that they might do the same to their enemies. Right liberals see its femininity, its lack of active vital principle, and its break with tradition and tolerance of error if it meets with consensus. Left liberals see its inequality, invasive and exacting demands upon all, and its pervasive and inescapable injustice and lack of responsiveness to pressing needs of the unfortunate. Theocrats see no god in it, only a worship of power, wealth, and status."
- j_schmuck 4y ago
  I do think that's central to it, the managerworld is not profit driven necessarily, but it is quite focused on success, failure, and iteration driven by these heuristics. The focus on management prevents the creation of a central legitimating narrative, which differentiates them from the central political sphere of the state, even as their ideology infects the state.

3 points by bshepard 4y ago

There's seems like the key to the argument: "But managerworld is predictable, if nothing else, because it is processual, it relies on a heuristic to determine success and failure, to determine what needs iteration and what does not. They all descend from the mad principle of endless INCREASE. Increase profit Increase power Increase prestige Should any given project under managerial society fail to increase any of those 3 criterion according to the nearest most powerful supervising managers, it will be judged a failure, and cancelled or shelved or delayed."

bshepard 4y ago
Another passage that really sizzles: "The world of modern management is a world of continual surveillance and goal-oriented process. It is fundamentally harmonious, and offenses against its harmony are taken with great seriousness. It is a world of decorum, a world of process, a world of evaluation according to standards. It is obviously quite unlike the relationships of people under ‘normal’ conditions and almost all historical conditions. ‘Eurasianists’ see only its origins, and the insults inflicted upon their countrymen and fellow-travelers by it, though they seek to master this system so that they might do the same to their enemies. Right liberals see its femininity, its lack of active vital principle, and its break with tradition and tolerance of error if it meets with consensus. Left liberals see its inequality, invasive and exacting demands upon all, and its pervasive and inescapable injustice and lack of responsiveness to pressing needs of the unfortunate. Theocrats see no god in it, only a worship of power, wealth, and status."
j_schmuck 4y ago
I do think that's central to it, the managerworld is not profit driven necessarily, but it is quite focused on success, failure, and iteration driven by these heuristics. The focus on management prevents the creation of a central legitimating narrative, which differentiates them from the central political sphere of the state, even as their ideology infects the state.