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This argument makes no sense, because if it's so obvious what the designers are up to, it should be easy for the bean counters to take that into consideration w

This argument makes no sense, because if it's so obvious what the designers are up to, it should be easy for the bean counters to take that into consideration when deciding whether to fire the designers.

PaulHoule 1y ago
If you believe the designers have some perverse self-centered motivation you might also believe the bean counters do too.
- gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
  Yes, I do :) abbreviated-- "ideology". Now, the question is how can the two parties demonstrate to each other the usefulness of their respective (hopefully, divergent) perversions :) In this framing, transparent ambition is apt
gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
Hear my rationale for Catholicism-infused Daoism (or Daoism-infused Catholicism, but the equivalence proof thereof shall be postponed to a later margin :) If the pontiff is chief designer*, and bean counters the cardinals.. *In other contexts, I'd have used the term "Designor", to inspire interest in Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel) >Hesse frequently mentioned his understanding of the Taoist philosophies of Laozi (老子) and Zhuangzi (庄子) in letters to his friends, and Taoist ideas such as 'Tao' (道) or 'One' and 'polar opposites and unity' recur across his work. Another worthy ref: https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-2/the-unknown-wisdom-of-the-small-nation/ https://isonomiaquarterly.com/archive/volume-3-issue-2/the-u... (What jumped out at me was that author considered Poland to be smaller than Switzerland) Edit: the Godfather ref in TFA also worthy of consideration https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1i74th9/seth_macfarlane_explains_origins_of_family_guy/ https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1i74th9/seth_ma...
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