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28th December 2007 | Uncompleted

Clappy-Happy Global Management

and Hope-mongering

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Introduction

This is a further development of arguments in Being Positive Avoiding Negativity: management challenge of positive vs negative (2005)

Clappy-Happy arenas

• fundamentalist -- rapture
• celebrate UN, Rio+
• positive news / good news
• Dale Carnegie -- we have no problems today
• upbeat political spin
• self-cheer
• orchestra / choir -- on Titanic
• never had it so good

Tunnel vision

• functional equivalence
  • stories
  • fashions, looks
  • models
  • music
  • substance surrogates (alcohol, food, etc)
  • rituals
• coherences vs knols
• bubbles of pleasureable coherence
• sensory deprivation
• synaesthetic cocooning
• medium is the message -- cyclopean

Management implications

• Challenger, Titanic -- press coverage prior
• technicians getting drunk

Shadow of an intuited posibility?

• Aesthetics of gov

Towards the singularity and beyond

• anti-knowledge

Reframing an anticipated future

• H G wells -- trogs and wogs
• intensive farming people

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