Comments on: Thin slices

By: let it burn

let it burn — Sat, 02 May 2015 16:34:28 +0000

@There’s a quote along the lines of “Specialisation is for insects”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an
invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write
a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort
the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program
a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die
gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein

By: hans

hans — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:18:55 +0000

Specialization and her twin compartmentalization are the typical operating principles of your bog standard secret society.
Or any transnational corporation or “national” secret service or even a terrorist group (not much difference between the last two anyway).

You need the bricks in your pyramid NOT have a clue how the big picture looks like or otherwise they might competently usurp the agenda.

People like you and Joe are THE ENEMY.
You are a threat because you still posses the abilities to become independent again. The rest of us know, some even consciously, that we don´t have that option anymore.

Sometimes I almost wish I could go back to “coincidence theorist” but the dots have become too damn many&obvious to not connect.
But at least I can stare the train under that oncoming light in the tunnel straight in the fucking face.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:09:16 +0000

There’s a quote along the lines of “Specialisation is for insects”

That old school way of life has been done in as much by Health and Safety and the endless paperwork/qualifications needed to do things legally.

Stay in your slot, citizen.

By: Wake

Wake — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:20:41 +0000

We live in the era of maximum specialisation. Specialists are ruling, they have the power and the money. But any generalist can see they are just one step away only from complete incompetence and failure (fear of failure: that’s why they are so unwilling to be flexible). Therefore the specialists fear and resent the generalists and systematically fight them wherever and whenever they can. And I mean “fight” as in cultural war – all guns out – at all levels of society.