Have you ever read the history of the community and business councils formed in the 1880s that put Indians on reservations, organized the time zones, took over the cultural institutions and moved the lower classes from the classics to Vaudeville? That was called the American Victorian era. We still have remnants of those groups in religious and social institutions and in councils like the color council that decides the colors that everyone will wear in the coming season. The council for the "Indian Problem" was called the Dawes Commission and it was the root of our misery. Not unlike the German commission that came up with the "Final Solution." In fact Hitler commented on his models being tried here first.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:19 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] PR becomes "counter-insurgency" Not so much for the paranoid scare value as to indicate the applicablity of: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ---Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. I think most people -- people who manage moderately complicated lives adequately -- fail to grasp the degree to which corporate entities mount systematic, organized, heavily funded, carefully debated and thought-out projects to suppress anything that threatens anything that is on the current corporate agenda. (I avoid saying "threatens profit and/or share value" because often (AFAICT) "things on the corporate agenda" are often trendy, misconceived, harmful to profit/share-value or similar.) http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fracking-industry-admits-to-employing-mil itary-psychologial-operations-on-american-citizens-2011-11 >From the article -- advice to fracking insiders: "Download the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual, because we are dealing with an insurgency," Carmichael said. "There's a lot of good lessons in there and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable." >From the manual mentioned: " ... insurgency has been a common approach used by the weak to combat the strong. At the beginning of a conflict, insurgents have the strategic initiative ... the insurgents generally initiate the war. They may strive to disguise their intentions, and the potential counter-insurgent will be at a great disadvantage until [corporate] leaders recognize that an insurgency exists and are able to determine its makeup and characteristics to facilitate a coordinated reaction. While the [corporation] prepares to respond, the insurgent is gaining strength and creating increasing disruptions throughout the state. The existing [corporation] normally has an initial advantage in resources, but that edge is counterbalanced by the requirement to maintain order. The insurgent succeeds by sowing chaos and disorder anywhere; the [corporation] fails unless it maintains order everywhere. Alles in Ordnung. Zu Befehl. How dare the biomass talk back? :-o FWIW, - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
