The liberal solution to our problems.

As I have aged, an appreciation of the arts, particularly in the film industry and the science fiction genre specifically has developed.  It started while watching a few of the more recent sci-fi movies with my grandson who is attracted to the action (violence) and the thought of another alien race out there in space.   At his age I was not as into that genre as he is probably due to the graphics being pretty lame back then although there were a few favorites about giant ants, spiders and locust. They were the same story with different insects as stars and all were created by our use of nuclear weapons.  Aliens were always ugly animal like creatures or machine like robots.  The Day the Earth Stood Still was the first movie I can remember that portrayed a very human like alien with a very definite message for us at the height of the Cold War.  The overall message from that movie was that we had to disarm and that they would leave this huge indestructible metal Sheriff named Gort to watch over and protect us all; a very comforting thought.  I think that the left has used this script for their anti-gun campaign for years.

The other big movie was “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. I prefer the remake with Donald Sutherland but the premise was the same as the original.  You would go to sleep as you and then wake up as a mindless alien that looks like you.  The real you has been replaced very quietly and efficiently.  A scary thought if you are aware of it happening but otherwise painless if you are just a normal Joe looking to nap somewhere.  It didn’t happen all at once.  The “new” you had to be formed inside a pod and when ready to graduate the “new” you would enter the world and the  “old” you would be discarded.  It isn’t a huge jump to see today’s society in this movie.  The pod is the University experience or education which does away with the previous you.  At almost every graduation ceremony there is a reference to being  “renewed” and “enlightened” and graduates are told to go forth and use this new mind to go out and correct all the ill’s of this world.  The hallways of the large corporations and of our political capitals are filled with these imitation people whose goal is control.

In the business world we are told that the bottom line is the most important aspect of doing business but is it really?  How it is achieved is probably more important because you can not get to the result without travelling down a path so that path is actually more important than the destination.  For large corporations and most normal organizations control is the main path but the main path soon splits into other paths that alter the landscape of the business.  Different variables such as knowledge, trust and leadership enter the landscape and with these variables, control while still there has changed into a more human form.  At one time leadership was the driving force behind running a business but a relatively new variable entered the mix and that is technology.

Like all things, technology is a two edged sword.  Much like a gun, it is how you use it that makes it good or bad.  Specifically information technology.  There is no doubt that information is king.  Computer technology allows information to be entered and results are instantaneous.  And that’s a good thing, right?  Well, again it is how it is used.  I focus on the large corporations because in my experience it is the large corporations that misuse the technology.  It is now possible for a corporation that has several locations to be micromanaged from one spot.  Everything flows to the one location and a couple of things happen and not for the better.  Micromanaging becomes out of control.  It starts with the CEO and filters down.  The root cause of micromanaging is ego.  The larger the compensation package; the larger the ego.  It leads to mundane decisions being made by someone who is two to three levels above the person who should make the decision.  And it should go without saying that the further up the chain the less aware that person is of the consequences of their action down below.  Behind the numbers is a story that is ignored as irrelevant by those who live by the numbers.  Eventually, the numbers adulation addiction leads to unethical, immoral and often illegal actions that is harmful to people and the organization but usually those implementing those actions are long gone with a nice retirement payout.

Liberal corporate reaction to an original thought.

Large corporations are filled with lemmings who will not or can not think for themselves.  Their only goal is to meet the numbers that were given to them by the lemming above them.  It is a rare person that is employed at these corporate centers that can actually think and act outside the corporate box.  If you watched “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” you watched what happened to the un-reengineered, and it is not unlike todays society.  You are pointed out, targeted, ridiculed  and hounded until you are conformed.  It isn’t that great a stretch to see the similarities.

Hollywood has long been in cahoots with our government.  Liberals have been pointing out the relationship of war movies and conflicts overseas, used as a way to prepare us and to get us in the right frame of mind to do battle.  Many will say it is just a coincidence and it may be just that, however it isn’t paranoia to consider otherwise.  It is stupidity not to consider the link.