systems theory jargon
Apparently not all sailors wanted radiation exposure to be part of their "Navy Adventure" and required some gentle persuasion.
Efficient management requires that a company take into account "the human factor."
reprogram disfunctional minds
James Clark, Cofounder LD: "You think by association as turbulence heats up, the ability to store information leads us to take actions that are maladaptive. How can we create new associations in people's minds? We can't change the associative processes but you can change what it is you associate to."
Corporate therapists engineering more "adaptive asociations" in the minds of workers. The successful dissimulation of conflict. Legions of organizational consultants and human-factor specialists. Deriving a calculus of compliance. Think-for-success lexicon. A dress-code for the mind. What they clearly want are assertive followers, a.k.a. goon squads.
Repeating certain propagandistic messages lends conflicting ideas a false coherence: "By the frequent association of declarations and scattered ideas, it creates the appearance of logical connection and the sense that behind the phrases and the frequent conjunction of irreconcilable ideas there is some sort of system. If unusual collocations of words such as 'revolution' and 'religion,' 'nationalism' and 'socialism,' 'Marxism' and 'Christianity,' 'Jews' and 'Communists' are repeated often enough, the audience is surprised (or at least this used to be the case). But you are also convincing your listeners that the two ideas go together and that their juxtaposition has a hidden meaning." - Serge Moscovici
Perhaps one basis for the appeal of a system of ideas that has rendered all conflict invisible is that it presents a unified image of a world that is rife with actual and feared social and psychological fragmentation.
"What convinces the masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part." - Hannah Arendt
Efficient management requires that a company take into account "the human factor."
reprogram disfunctional minds
James Clark, Cofounder LD: "You think by association as turbulence heats up, the ability to store information leads us to take actions that are maladaptive. How can we create new associations in people's minds? We can't change the associative processes but you can change what it is you associate to."
Corporate therapists engineering more "adaptive asociations" in the minds of workers. The successful dissimulation of conflict. Legions of organizational consultants and human-factor specialists. Deriving a calculus of compliance. Think-for-success lexicon. A dress-code for the mind. What they clearly want are assertive followers, a.k.a. goon squads.
Repeating certain propagandistic messages lends conflicting ideas a false coherence: "By the frequent association of declarations and scattered ideas, it creates the appearance of logical connection and the sense that behind the phrases and the frequent conjunction of irreconcilable ideas there is some sort of system. If unusual collocations of words such as 'revolution' and 'religion,' 'nationalism' and 'socialism,' 'Marxism' and 'Christianity,' 'Jews' and 'Communists' are repeated often enough, the audience is surprised (or at least this used to be the case). But you are also convincing your listeners that the two ideas go together and that their juxtaposition has a hidden meaning." - Serge Moscovici
Perhaps one basis for the appeal of a system of ideas that has rendered all conflict invisible is that it presents a unified image of a world that is rife with actual and feared social and psychological fragmentation.
"What convinces the masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part." - Hannah Arendt