Salemanship

I feel a sense of anxiety when I experience conflicting worlds. One is the information or knowledge of what I feel within me about the world today and the other is the external world that surrounds me which fill with other people's opinions and suppose educated information.

The first few paragraph of this article is an example of why I am not on the O bandwagon. In my opinion, we are praising an educated use car sales man. You see when you make a sale, you play on the emotion of the person (the target). Avoid any situation about substance because although noble, will never make you the top sales man. This is sales 101.


You see, it is never about the substance or detail of the topic when it comes to Mr. O. It is always about how the situation is hurting someone and who is demanding this. What make this an "Educated" sale is because it is well planned and executed. The foresight is amazing. Carefully crafted and orchestrated not by himself, but viral like implementation, by a larger degree of separation. To put it simply, set up a victim, create an environment of anxiety and urgency, set up a target (a goat), and the delivery is not a solution (because solution get tested) but phases. Never say it is complete, because there got to be a villain and avoid any postmortem unless it support the cause. No conclusion, no commitment, no checking the facts. It is not about reaching an end, but more on a continue movement or flow. This is modern Roman politics at its best. It take a intelligent man who is well read to put this together. It then bring up the question of just because you know, does that mean you do what is right? Like the Romans, which are highly educated people, practiced these ideologies, of hierarchy (how many czar do O have?), class inequities (bailout, trade tariff, tax plan, other O plan), elite power (TBD), iron-fisted policies (government involvement in finance and business), and the politics of harsh vengeance and elitist authoritarianism are being retooled in today's administration. I commend O for the craftsmanship, because truthfully if anyone want to get ahead in the corporation today (get a raise, higher position, etc...) he or she will need to follow what was practiced by the commander of this land. The societies criteria for respectability been lazy. We grant it by, majority vote, level of education, how he talks, what does he look like, or even career or salary status. But what is missing is the action to examine the substance of the person and to judge equally not base on the color of the skill or one's own self serving ideology.


http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/why-the-meltdown-could-happen-again.aspx?page=1

"Or perhaps not only the seasons but everything else, social history included, moves in cycles. Not, however, that earlier times were better than ours in every way-- our own epoch too has produced moral and intellectual achievements for our descendants to copy. And such honourable rivalry with the past is a fine thing."--Tacitus, "The Annals of Imperial Rome", ca. A.D. 100