On office politics, and the G20
I keep reminding myself to appreciate each and every normal day.
By normal I mean a day when electricity and water utilities work, when food markets are open, and when I can go about my day without worrying too much about survival. After all, the Associated Press and their handlers just tried to start World War III so you never know how long that normalcy will last.
I won’t dwell on current events – it’s all a puppet show anyway – but isn’t it funny how mainstream media pivoted from “the sky is falling” to “nothing ever happened” in a matter of hours? Only a day after shit got real within the borders of a core member of the EU and NATO, you could time the exact minute when all mainstream media suddenly acted like it never happened.
No inquiry, nothing.
Instead they focused on the G20 summit, where a group of young middle managers – eh, I mean, Western country leaders – were spotted wearing tropical-themed shirts and having some jolly good fun, in between committing “our democracy” to more digital IDs, health passports, and other Orwellian upgrades.
You see, those country “leaders” did not go to Bali to debate and negotiate. They traveled there to watch corporate keynotes and partake in team-building activities. G20 looked more like a corporate offsite than a top-level country meeting. And if you’ve had the pleasure of working for large corporations you’ll know that it is during those shindigs that employees get inculcated with the latest top-down directives, encapsulated in easy-to-remember keywords and catchy slogans. Resilient, sustainable, equitable, inclusive, and so on.
One of the banalities dispensed at this year’s G20 summit was “public-private collaboration”. Here is one example:
We reaffirm our commitment to revitalizing infrastructure investment in a sustainable, inclusive, accessible, and affordable way. Following on from previous years’ events, the 2022 G20 Infrastructure Investors Dialogue highlighted the importance of public-private sector collaboration, and we look forward to the outcome document.
— G20 Bali Leader’s Declaration, 15-16 November 2022
Dear me. Where to start?
First of all, cringe.
More to the point, however, there is nothing new about corporations colluding with governments. Bonus point: what do you call this type of governance? It starts with F.
Okay, I’ll go ahead and say it.
Big corporations are the operational arm of an international regime whose long-held goal is to transition humanity from reality to illusion; from moral to immoral; and from freedom to slavery.
If you are working for a big corporation you are part of the problem – I certainly was, for decades. For the avoidance of doubt, any business that grows to the point of needing an HR team, is toxic and complicit.
In any case, the puppet masters of “our democracy” play the long game and they use a carrot-and-stick approach:
The job of authorities is to progressively corral citizens into tightly packed urban home pods. Think of governments as the stick.
The job of big media, big tech, and big ph4rma is to keep consumers plugged in, comfortable, and subdued. Big corporations are the carrot.
Don’t expect the world to change course any time soon.
I was sitting at a cafe the other day and there was a TV set streaming music videos for their customers. I was horrified.
There was nothing musical or even artistic in those videos. It was a gross display of ugliness, degeneration, vulgarity, and bad taste. To my unaccustomed eyes it was scary. But to the millions of youths that are exposed to this poison 24x7 it’s the only thing they know.
Humanity is bifurcating.
The chasm between those under the spell of illusion, and the rest of us is growing deeper by the day. It’s painful to watch this unfold, but the healthiest response is acceptance.
Don’t waste time trying to convince or change others. Don’t waste energy trying to resist or change your environment. A captain doesn’t get angry when there is a storm; instead, he tries to navigate around it.
Remember, it’s not a fight, it’s a dance.
Stay unplugged, stay in the know, and stay out of the way. Focus on your domain: help yourself and your people. As for everything else, have faith.
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