Positivity
The future of Red Ken
Ok, I have been having fun with this stuff and I will continue to do so, but I think I need a schedule to ensure that I do a decent job at all this. So from now on I am setting a schedule and sticking to it.
I will put a post up Monday through Thursday with Wednesday dedicated to an ‘ask a commie’ day. To get to me reply to any ‘Red Ken’ post, message me via facebook, drop a reply on my LJ, or email me at tredekka11@yahoo.com and include ‘Red Ken’ in the subject line.
Now, without further ado…
Positivity
How many of you had had someone try to get you into direct marketing? Or maybe you got into direct marketing and tried to get someone else into it. Modern direct marketing is only a few steps shy of being a proper pyramid scheme. Many are sold on the opportunity to join the leisure class with promises of independence and living and working on their own schedule only to leave these operations within a year with time wasted and money spent. People often look a bit askance at those that buy into these schemes and surely a few of the names of these organizations have become jokes, but despite the often lower start up budget and the somewhat cheesy set up, these people are no different from everyone else.
Hordes of people going to schools be they tech schools, junior colleges, community colleges, and small private institutions as well as state schools seem to be moving more and more towards business, management, or sales related degrees, many of them with the dream of someday becoming wealthy and being in charge of some great private enterprise. Most of these folk end up either as drones or in middle management where they live out their powerful fantasies by abusing those around them.
Hundreds of millions are spent in this nation alone on a deluge of self-help business bullshit. The idea of business and sales as a religion unto themselves is so prevalent that the greatest tacticians, theologians, leaders, and thinkers of the world are all being made given makeovers to better help service this free market business over brains ideology; we have books entitled “Jesus Christ CEO” (were I a Christian I would perhaps have questions about this), “Gandhi CEO, Sun Tzu and his art of business, “Mother Theresa CEO,” etc. (When they get to Karl Marx: CEO someone please email me.)
The dream of the capitalist seems to be everyone aspiring up the chain from the petty salesman all the way up to Executive. The dream is a world of merchants with everyone selling things all the time and everyone seeking to make money as often as possible. All invention, art, and bit of culture is inevitably subjugated to the profit motive. Desire is manufactured, commodified, stoked, and maximized to accomplish this cultural imperative.
As a communist I find the money grubbing masquerading as spiritualism worse than any real religion and in few places is this as terrible as in the foolishness that has come to be called “prosperity theology.” Here is a kind of phony doctrine that even the religious should at least find a little questionable and it seems to prop up the most selfish imaginable ambitions with the most facile rationalizations conceivable.
In terms of true idiocy though the prosperity doctrine takes a long back seat to the pure self help idiocy of books like ”The Secret.” According to this book merely wishing something so and somehow putting out energy towards it, while expecting it to occur in a relaxed fashion is enough to make things happen. Stripped of any of the pageantry of religion, spirituality, reflection, planning or anything of the like it accomplishes very little.
Ok, I have been having fun with this stuff and I will continue to do so, but I think I need a schedule to ensure that I do a decent job at all this. So from now on I am setting a schedule and sticking to it.
I will put a post up Monday through Thursday with Wednesday dedicated to an ‘ask a commie’ day. To get to me reply to any ‘Red Ken’ post, message me via facebook, drop a reply on my LJ, or email me at tredekka11@yahoo.com and include ‘Red Ken’ in the subject line.
Now, without further ado…
Positivity
How many of you had had someone try to get you into direct marketing? Or maybe you got into direct marketing and tried to get someone else into it. Modern direct marketing is only a few steps shy of being a proper pyramid scheme. Many are sold on the opportunity to join the leisure class with promises of independence and living and working on their own schedule only to leave these operations within a year with time wasted and money spent. People often look a bit askance at those that buy into these schemes and surely a few of the names of these organizations have become jokes, but despite the often lower start up budget and the somewhat cheesy set up, these people are no different from everyone else.
Hordes of people going to schools be they tech schools, junior colleges, community colleges, and small private institutions as well as state schools seem to be moving more and more towards business, management, or sales related degrees, many of them with the dream of someday becoming wealthy and being in charge of some great private enterprise. Most of these folk end up either as drones or in middle management where they live out their powerful fantasies by abusing those around them.
Hundreds of millions are spent in this nation alone on a deluge of self-help business bullshit. The idea of business and sales as a religion unto themselves is so prevalent that the greatest tacticians, theologians, leaders, and thinkers of the world are all being made given makeovers to better help service this free market business over brains ideology; we have books entitled “Jesus Christ CEO” (were I a Christian I would perhaps have questions about this), “Gandhi CEO, Sun Tzu and his art of business, “Mother Theresa CEO,” etc. (When they get to Karl Marx: CEO someone please email me.)
The dream of the capitalist seems to be everyone aspiring up the chain from the petty salesman all the way up to Executive. The dream is a world of merchants with everyone selling things all the time and everyone seeking to make money as often as possible. All invention, art, and bit of culture is inevitably subjugated to the profit motive. Desire is manufactured, commodified, stoked, and maximized to accomplish this cultural imperative.
As a communist I find the money grubbing masquerading as spiritualism worse than any real religion and in few places is this as terrible as in the foolishness that has come to be called “prosperity theology.” Here is a kind of phony doctrine that even the religious should at least find a little questionable and it seems to prop up the most selfish imaginable ambitions with the most facile rationalizations conceivable.
In terms of true idiocy though the prosperity doctrine takes a long back seat to the pure self help idiocy of books like ”The Secret.” According to this book merely wishing something so and somehow putting out energy towards it, while expecting it to occur in a relaxed fashion is enough to make things happen. Stripped of any of the pageantry of religion, spirituality, reflection, planning or anything of the like it accomplishes very little.