Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Summer Re-Run: "Cracking the Corporate Code"

Posted by Mickey Z on 08/10 at 04:02 AM

  2. Esoteric teachings? Good morning Mickey..., I read this immediately prior to visiting ‘Cool Observer’


    Just as many religions have been introduced during the current cycle of humanity, there have also been esoteric teachings which teach how to do what the exoteric part of religion preaches. Gurdjieff said an esoteric teaching is “preserved in secret in special schools and with its help it is always possible to rectify what has been distorted [in religion] or to restore what has been forgotten.”

    All the religious revelations failed to create the New Type of Man needed to fill the enlarging gap. Warned Gurdjieff: “Humanity is at a standstill and from a standstill there is a straight path to downfall and degeneration.... There is nothing that points to evolution proceeding. On the contrary when we compare humanity with a man we quite clearly see a growth of personality at the cost of essence, that is, a growth of the artificial, the unreal, and what is foreign, at the cost of the natural, the real, and what is one’s own.... Contemporary culture requires automatons. And people are undoubtedly losing their acquired habits of independence and turning into automatons, into parts of machines....

    Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man.”

    The above was stated in the early part of the 20th century. I have no doubt it was also said in many other centuries.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  08/10  at  06:28 AM

  3. We have Stockholm Syndrome…

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  08/10  at  01:44 PM

  4. Now I have Bob Marley stuck in my head.  Not that that’s a bad thing…

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  08/10  at  04:41 PM

  5. RMJ, I never knew what Stockholm Syndrome described. Maybe that’s an explanation for why americans love even abusive authorities.

    Perhaps this condition has always existed in some form with many people. I think some veterans can’t live with the feelings of being used as pawns so will defend their actions and of the deciders?

    Maybe some labeled criminals are more humane than their rescuers? If someone is kidnapped and they are caught between the criminals and the police, that fine line between who is the real lunatic can blur one’s judgement?

    If someone kidnaps me, I hope they like cigars and music for one cello..., that most certainly would be one up on the cops.

    Posted by Joe of Maine from The Window  on  08/11  at  03:44 AM

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    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  08/13  at  06:20 AM

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