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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:36:37 JST Bread up, Bro
   "As institutions turn to cannibalizing each other, there is little patronage or emotional energy going towards accurately describing the wider process." hits hard, the Harvard thing really gives me strong 'institutions cannibalizing each other' vibes
   
   thesideview.co/journal/why-civilizations-collapse/
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:37:48 JST Bread up, Bro

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     his naming of the western thought as 'scientism' is close, but missing, it's more like 'expertism' - the cult of the expert.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:39:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     "This compartmentalization isn’t driven by the division of labor, but rather by the need to make use of misaligned talent without empowering it. By radically limiting employees’ scope of action, you make office politics more predictable. By fragmenting available knowledge, you can leverage information asymmetries to the intellectual or material advantage of the center."
     
     this is basically managerialism. Consolidation of the power of the talent into the manager.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:44:08 JST Bread up, Bro

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     "And yet, clearly some functional institutions still exist, or our society would not function at all. At the end of the day, you can still go online and call a cab or go to a dealership and buy a car. This car will have doors bolted on by a worker you’ve never met, and these doors will seem to work."
     
     making me ill
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:47:28 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SpurgAnon I mean that's not just boomers though. guilds are a historical thing
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     Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:47:29 JST Spurg

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     @sickburnbro it started with boomers realizing that if they hoarded specialized knowledge they could never be fired.
     
     Fast forwarding to where we are now clearly shows how brilliant of an idea it was.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:48:17 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SpurgAnon the 60s really fucked things over worse than initially assumed
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:49:32 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard @ForbiddenDreamer worse may be that they were bolted on but the design for the bolting was bad and made for decisions that will never be examined.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:49:33 JST BroDrillard

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     Well, some doors will be bolted on. Others won't.
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     The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:49:34 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     @sickburnbro *laughs in Boeing*
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:50:29 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @BroDrillard @ForbiddenDreamer attempts are already being made to blame the airline, but no 6 mo old plane should be failing like this due to any maintenance issue from the airline.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:50:55 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Spurg
     @wgiwf @SpurgAnon they were told they were the last man, and they acted like it.
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     Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:50:56 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     @sickburnbro @SpurgAnon Guilds had the good sense to pass on their knowledge to their new members, something the boomers have struggled to do.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:51:17 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Spurg
     @wgiwf @SpurgAnon apre moi on the big scale
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:52:25 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SpurgAnon @wgiwf I dunno, I've talked to some boomers that were willing. I also assume as things start blowing up they will reconsider, so keep your notebooks handy
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     Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:52:26 JST Spurg

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     @wgiwf @sickburnbro you mean *refused* to do.
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     Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:57:48 JST Spurg

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     @sickburnbro @wgiwf maybe, we'll see. In my experience they're usually vindictive and love to fuck things up for their own amusement, so I personally wouldn't hold out hope.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:57:48 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Spurg
     @SpurgAnon @wgiwf yes, there is a very angry streak there, but I think that's because of the 60s and I think many of them are angry about what happened in society.
     
     In that sense, I think when things really unravel, they can finally let off that steam.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:58:45 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @SpurgAnon @wgiwf Did boomers just do a 60 year long Galt? Kinda feeling like it.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:59:54 JST BroDrillard

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     As experience shows most catastrophic failures have multiple causes. Any one of the problems on its own would not have resulted in catastrophic failure.
     
     Our ruling geniuses keep knocking blocks out of the Jenga tower of complex, western technical civilization. Failures will multiply and eventually cascade.
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     Coon Appreciater (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 06:59:55 JST Coon Appreciater

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     • BroDrillard
     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @ForbiddenDreamer It may even be no one thing. Nigger metalurgist, nigger bolt maker, nigger designer, nigger engineer, nigger technician, nigger maintenance. A long line of minor errors, any one of which our systems could account for by having competent people at all other steps, but now all steps in the process have degraded in quality. Expect errors to compound more and more until either the philosophy guiding our system is fixed or it breaks.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 07:00:47 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard @MeBigbrain @ForbiddenDreamer indeed, that's what I'm talking about when I say it can be hard to predict short term.
     
     Sometimes you can tell what will happen when things start failing; I've been telling people not to fly for probably 18mo now.
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     Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse (feralphilosophernc@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 07:01:01 JST Your Loud, Obnoxious Skunkle Jesse

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     I have no talent. I play my guy's talent up like the shill I am at every chance I get.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 07:01:50 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @feralphilosophernc the sad thing is being a good manager means being humble. But it can be hard to tell a bad manager with good people, and it's always devilishly difficult to get rid of a bad manager.
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     Spurg (spurganon@varishangout.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 07:05:39 JST Spurg

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield
     @sickburnbro @wgiwf and that's where we differ.
     
     I think they'll go out with one final fuck you to their descendants and nations. Once it unravels they'll go back to self agrandizing and calling themselves the last generation of real men and proclaim its ordained by God or nature to let the knowledge be lost because we're just ungrateful fucks, or something similar.
     
     Imo the 60s and the rest made them evil and they love being such a thing.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 07:05:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Spurg
     @SpurgAnon @wgiwf you've not seen them actually afraid then.
     
     Try seeing a boomer in the hospital.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:25:17 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     It's not about having expertise, it's about being certified as an expert. There are lots of people who have worked in industries for decades and are literally experts due to experience, but they can't teach that subject matter at a university because they're not certified.
     
     On the flip side, we have people who have never worked in industries and have no real experience, but have studied it from the universities, teaching their ideations as if they're derived from real experience and reflect reality.
     
     We then act as if universities are the centers of knowledge, and push people to attend them to get certified themselves. Then we all pretend as if certification means something.
     
     This clip from Back to School isn't far off.
     
     https://youtu.be/uSLscJ2cY04?si=vem6Hoi5PzFFGinb
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:52:47 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Or destroy the unions (and resulting, lobbied for law) that prohibit the lateral movement between industry and education in order to protect their undeserved tenure.
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     DeadDrudge (jeddrudge@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:52:48 JST DeadDrudge

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     Retvrn to apprenticeships in all professions...?
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:54:41 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     By way of example, I could theoretically teach at any law school in the country, but I can't teach upper division pre-law courses at most universities. Wtf? 🙄
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:56:35 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Oh.... I also can't teach at any high school, and not because I'm on Megan's list. 🙄
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 15:02:34 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I am short, not fat. Get your shit straight. 🤨
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     ĐØⱠⱠ (doll@decayable.ink)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 15:02:35 JST ĐØⱠⱠ

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     It's because you can't fit through the doors.
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     Coon Appreciater (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 15:33:48 JST Coon Appreciater

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     @Humpleupagus @Doll @BroDrillard @JedDrudge @ForbiddenDreamer @sickburnbro He cannot reach the doorknobs to the buildings.