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The longing to become a source of events affects each man like a mental disorder or a desired malediction. Society—an inferno of saviors! What Diogenes was looking for with his lantern was an indifferent man. . . .
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
As its critical purchase increased over time, human relations theory successfully married incentive and control. The theory of the workplaceas-family traded on the notion of base instincts derived from Mayo’s unique reading of Darwin and Freud. In this vision, fueled by Piaget’s development ideals, workers were necessarily infantilized in an Oedipal relation to an authority (daddy) figure. Responsibility had to be proved through competitive and comparative merit against other colleaguesiblings.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
Stressing ‘consensus’ as the goal of ‘dialogue’, the point is to discredit any dissensual policy, implicitly labelling ‘groups who do not engage in consensus-oriented direct discussions with industry as “confrontational,” “incapable of dialogue” and ultimately as “unworthy” of participating in democratic decision-making processes’.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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