The importance of being important
It's been a busy weekend. I think that the highlight was the hoover was working. Yes. There was the baking of cakes and buns and the pre Haloween thing at John McCormick's but really the hoover working was the highlight because it has not been used properly by me since the five months that we have had it and now that it is working well, it was magic getting the house done properly.
A friend sent me an email later by Stanford types who are saying that conservation is not working because the conservationists are doing it like, wrong. They are not talking to local communities and working well with them, as a result land is damaged at an alarming rate.
This is not rocket science. In fact i think that rocket science is useless. Anyone who is a rocket scientist is lovely and great, but really you have wasted your life. Much better to apply your skills and knowledge on staying on earth and trying to make the best of life here... anyway, i digress. Just my humble opinion. Anyway, is it this massive disconnect between science and people that is the issue. And it has entirely to do with the way corporations are set up - to pander to the WORST of human characteristics.
Corporations institutionise and dehumanise us. They encourage people to be competitive, politick, judgemental, self-important and ultimately pointless. People will spend years and years and years on large vanity projects which result in nothing but great profile raising for themselves to chase after that next promotion or pot of money. While the real work, the less glam, hard graft, getting people to understand, internalise and do something about it, is overlooked.
Men who tend to run these things seem to incapable of behaving like anything other than silverbacked gorillas when they get together. Since i am not a female gorilla, i find these displays (a) very dull (b) utterly pointless because there are dull things that can have a point and (c) exasperating because it would be alright if we were the Society for Silverback Imitation and Mutual Appreciation, but we are not. The only point meetings then seem to serve if we have certain conglomerations of people in them is it demonstrate the importance of being important.
A friend sent me an email later by Stanford types who are saying that conservation is not working because the conservationists are doing it like, wrong. They are not talking to local communities and working well with them, as a result land is damaged at an alarming rate.
This is not rocket science. In fact i think that rocket science is useless. Anyone who is a rocket scientist is lovely and great, but really you have wasted your life. Much better to apply your skills and knowledge on staying on earth and trying to make the best of life here... anyway, i digress. Just my humble opinion. Anyway, is it this massive disconnect between science and people that is the issue. And it has entirely to do with the way corporations are set up - to pander to the WORST of human characteristics.
Corporations institutionise and dehumanise us. They encourage people to be competitive, politick, judgemental, self-important and ultimately pointless. People will spend years and years and years on large vanity projects which result in nothing but great profile raising for themselves to chase after that next promotion or pot of money. While the real work, the less glam, hard graft, getting people to understand, internalise and do something about it, is overlooked.
Men who tend to run these things seem to incapable of behaving like anything other than silverbacked gorillas when they get together. Since i am not a female gorilla, i find these displays (a) very dull (b) utterly pointless because there are dull things that can have a point and (c) exasperating because it would be alright if we were the Society for Silverback Imitation and Mutual Appreciation, but we are not. The only point meetings then seem to serve if we have certain conglomerations of people in them is it demonstrate the importance of being important.
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