Posts Tagged ‘ Power Complex ’

The Corporation is Like the Titanic

Last night I had horrible nightmares about the failure of our corporations. This morning I am asking myself what that means – and asking “What do the corporations symbolize?” The answer seems to be that they stand for almost everything, and the end of them will be the end of our whole world – not [ READ MORE ]

The New GroupThink

NY Times - The Rise of the New Groupthink This woman has been reading my mind. Here are the opening paragraphs: SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most [ READ MORE ]

What We Need

What we need is simple – we need to stop needing. Our human heritage is rich beyond compare – we have created a world of our own that never existed before. But instead of enjoying our riches we have become beggars, always wanting more. We have lost control of our world, and cannot get it [ READ MORE ]

The Corporate Power Structure

One of my recurrent themes has been that people are no longer important. This immediately raises the question “What is important?’ The simple answer is Power. The longer answer is The Corporate Power Structure. Organizations, where we all live and work, are mostly corporations, or dominated by corporations. They have all the money and all [ READ MORE ]

Something More Important Than Democracy

Americans are experts at deceiving themselves, and they have been giving the rest of the world lessons in this. Our most important activity has become – being whatever we are supposed to be, controlled by unconscious social forces we are forbidden to think about. Instead of being people we have become something else – so shameful we [ READ MORE ]

The Non-Linear World

We have moved from a linear to a non-linear world, and the shock of this has been more than we can handle. What do I mean by this? I am talking about rate of change. Previously, this was manageable, now it is not. I am reminded of a Sixties song “Stop the world, I want to [ READ MORE ]

Technological Dependency

This is one of the major problems of our time, mainly because it is not recognized as a problem, but as our chief source of our pleasure – as is the case for any life-threatening addiction. Steve Jobs should not be regarded as our savior, but as the devil incarnate – a man who knew [ READ MORE ]

What Went Wrong

Something is wrong with the world, and that something is us. It’s not the birds, the bees, or the trees – it is us. But we refuse to acknowledge this, and keep insisting it is something else – this, that, or the other thing. This is understandable, because what has happened to us is something [ READ MORE ]

Power is Limited

And the Power Complex now has all of it. This is the most important fact of our time – and only I seem to be aware of it. But let me continue anyway. This is really a continuation of my posting Power not Only Corrupts Completely, it Destroys Completely. In either case, the subject is power: [ READ MORE ]

External Forces are Now In Control

What do I mean by this? I mean people are no longer in control of their world – instead, their world controls them. We can no longer imagine what inside forces or internally-directed individuals or social movements, could be. Because these have been destroyed completely. Everyone lives in fear of being discovered – just the [ READ MORE ]

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