cake time
Too much choice is bad for the brain . They say ...
Fighting through ads all day is tiring.
A quote from Chuck Pahlaniuk seems apt :
"Big brother isn't watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always
distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.” ....
and one more :
"Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest."
What if technology got so good(?) that 'they' could run a test on you and figure out your psychological profile - whether you're the type to serve without complaint or if you'd figure out what's best for you and what is DUE you, and filter you out then and there itself, deny you employment based on testing results .... ?
What if you you couldn't lie ? how would that be ?
It's not impossible -there are already people who have the skill to catch people lying based on body language, tone, micro-expressions ... (Ekman/Tomkins) ... it's just a matter of time before the technique's externalized, put into a tome, and becomes part of collective social consciousness ( yes, this includes your house broker and the dipshit who ogles at your girl and the ridiculous office caterer who serves you crap on a daily basis ANS steven seagal to boot... ) and becomes standard procedure. Some of us will be lucky enough to be able to go through life and among the rest of us being what they are. The rest will quickly develop multiple personalities I think.
Overproduction and struggle for existence will ensure that each surmounted challenge will be
replaced by another one.
Organizations' need for dedicated, sacrificing members who put the organization before themselves will only go up. Inevitably, psychological profiling ( and policing ) must follow
empires of the mind cannot function without cages for the mind
I'll finish Spook Country someday soon.
Fighting through ads all day is tiring.
A quote from Chuck Pahlaniuk seems apt :
"Big brother isn't watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always
distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.” ....
and one more :
"Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest."
What if technology got so good(?) that 'they' could run a test on you and figure out your psychological profile - whether you're the type to serve without complaint or if you'd figure out what's best for you and what is DUE you, and filter you out then and there itself, deny you employment based on testing results .... ?
What if you you couldn't lie ? how would that be ?
It's not impossible -there are already people who have the skill to catch people lying based on body language, tone, micro-expressions ... (Ekman/Tomkins) ... it's just a matter of time before the technique's externalized, put into a tome, and becomes part of collective social consciousness ( yes, this includes your house broker and the dipshit who ogles at your girl and the ridiculous office caterer who serves you crap on a daily basis ANS steven seagal to boot... ) and becomes standard procedure. Some of us will be lucky enough to be able to go through life and among the rest of us being what they are. The rest will quickly develop multiple personalities I think.
Overproduction and struggle for existence will ensure that each surmounted challenge will be
replaced by another one.
Organizations' need for dedicated, sacrificing members who put the organization before themselves will only go up. Inevitably, psychological profiling ( and policing ) must follow
empires of the mind cannot function without cages for the mind
I'll finish Spook Country someday soon.
posted by yesbob at Tuesday, April 22, 2008
1 Comments:
Dei, a company doesn't actually want people who never lie, or who always do exactly what they're asked to. At work, you many times have to lie, to customers, vendors, maybe a bit less to your managers and reports, and that's for the benefit of the company. Most good things happen in companies only because of people who disagree, change how its done, and take the credit. So companies that use this filtering will be less fit - so use of this technique will die too. So much for your gothic future.
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