Bottom Feeders...
The individual human being is becoming less and less significant to the direction of collective progress. Each person's role is being confined and specialized-- making them a generic cog that can be fitted to a variety of wheels. Slowly man is transforming into multipurpose cell functioning in several larger organisms.
Once man was intoxicated with the promise of everlasting life. It is the institution that sells that promise that has been granted everlasting life, not those mobile piles of organic waste that pray five times a day or receive dehydrated hypoallergenic wheat wafers every Sunday. Those tithing and faithful trade their individuality so that those behemoth organizations that attempt to define the unknown can continue shaping history as they please.
Those institutions that specialize in managing the spirit, have provided the model structure for market and secular organizations to reproduce. Psalms and Sermons on the Mount have been replaced with mission statements and business plans. The history of membership upon the board of directors is substituted for the "Begot's". Agents of corporate espionage replaces the Jinn. Forty virgins are promised to employees willing to invest the entirety of their 401K's into company stock. The corporate slogan replaces the mantra and the eternal striving towards the Yang becomes the watermark below every corporate letterhead.
Companies grow to such complexities that the institutions develop a consciousness of their own. They regard human labor as a resource and the people themselves as mere cells. If the ticker tape health monitor shows that gluttony has made the company too large to fit through the doorway of competitive exploitation, then the board of directors decides that liposuction is in order. The vacuum tubes of consultants are inserted into the ass, belly and thighs, so that the trusting fat in the form of aging workers, those with scruples and the naive can be expelled into the great void of the American Dream. A leaner company with the same insatiable appetite for exploitation is released from the responsibility of pensions and pesky health care for the gullible aging that were sold the false promise.
As of yet the business world has been unable to reproduce the marketing campaign present in religious institutions. Their main obstacle is that unlike the spirituality market where the product is invisible and intangible, the secular world is less permissive. Even with the advent of information technology and the permeation of ones and zeros in every market from pornography to health care, the businesses have yet to truly capitalize on the potential of a concept alone. Certainly, agents are able to sell ideas to publishers and producers, but their survival in the industry depends upon the finished product of the talent. For religious institutions the product is post mortem and rarely do the walking dead fill chapels, temples and mosques to air their grievances.
This advantage of the spirituality market guarantees a size advantage over the lesser secular institutions. Although there are over 5 million businesses in the United States, less than a thousand of them have more than ten thousand employees. Compare that to 99.99% of the US population belongs to 20 religions and none of those has less than 40,000 members. The market is so consolidated due to the age of the product. With well over six thousand years to work out the difficulties of defining the unknown, new religions have tremendous barriers to the market and must exist as bottom feeding cults.
The secular environment for these multi-human organizations is rife with bottom feeders. 98% of businesses in the US have fewer than 100 employees. These miniature organizations survive on the scraps left over by the dominating 2%. Will the market one day be dominated by only 20 business. Will we stop at Wal-Mart to pick up our dry cleaning, groceries, and taxes then wait in the checkout line while Timmy gets a cavity filled, Earl gets a heart scan and Suzy gets her hair trimmed and dyed. Will we all tune in to the Microsoft channel where to continue watching the season finale to the 20th season of Lost, we must purchase an upgrade to our media center software. Commercials will no longer be passive opt-in advertisement. Instead if we refuse to purchase what is advertised, the house will lose electricity, Carl's pace maker will short and the brakes in our SUV's will fail. Advertisement will take the form of threats. Insurers will provide testimonials of doctors that watched a person die a preventable death because they only had an HMO. Human beings will carry no more value than we hold toward our own cuticles and eye lashes. We will become as expendable as a change of clothes.
Without a doubt there will be individuals with inflated egos that believe themselves to posses a unique characteristic that guarantees them an advantage over behemoth organizations. They may consider certain ideas that they cultivate as viruses that can infect an organization and bring upon its demise. These people will be controlled by the evolved immune system of these multi-human organizations. These conceptual viruses must rely upon vulnerabilities for infection. Organizations could easily cap these weaknesses with red tape and psychological profiles. Those deemed deviant will be denied entry and their viral presence will be brought to the attention of other organizations and the government. The blacklist will operate as the vaccine, and the deviant will be excommunicated, destined to wander the wilderness like the other animals that deny the trap their foot.
Bottom feeders will never lose their presence. Small groups of people may join together to compete with the behemoths. Unfortunately, the point where the inception of a group could develop into a dominant presence in the secular environment has either come and gone or is too near to make a difference.
The future is basically written and the existence of man will be comparable to a cell. Our heart replace the mitochondria, our arms and legs the flagella, and our brains the nucleus. We will grow more and more specialized like the Eloi and Morlocks of Wells' "Time Machine."
With constant monitoring, the deviants must take tremendous precaution from identification. To prevent conspiring between disguised deviants, organizations will fill a person's life with public spectacle and distraction. Every free minute will be accounted for and no life will be unique. People will be packed into dance clubs, stadiums and theaters filled with deafening clamor and blinding lights, scents of food will fill the air drawing pains from the stomachs of those resistant to appetite. Despite the swarming multitudes, each will have a solitary experience, universally shared with no communication between observers. The mob will react in unison to the teleprompter governed by the media monster. Deviants will stare at each other blankly from across the crowds, communicating in the binary language of controlled blinking, waiting for the lull to cry out for freedom.
Once man was intoxicated with the promise of everlasting life. It is the institution that sells that promise that has been granted everlasting life, not those mobile piles of organic waste that pray five times a day or receive dehydrated hypoallergenic wheat wafers every Sunday. Those tithing and faithful trade their individuality so that those behemoth organizations that attempt to define the unknown can continue shaping history as they please.
Those institutions that specialize in managing the spirit, have provided the model structure for market and secular organizations to reproduce. Psalms and Sermons on the Mount have been replaced with mission statements and business plans. The history of membership upon the board of directors is substituted for the "Begot's". Agents of corporate espionage replaces the Jinn. Forty virgins are promised to employees willing to invest the entirety of their 401K's into company stock. The corporate slogan replaces the mantra and the eternal striving towards the Yang becomes the watermark below every corporate letterhead.
Companies grow to such complexities that the institutions develop a consciousness of their own. They regard human labor as a resource and the people themselves as mere cells. If the ticker tape health monitor shows that gluttony has made the company too large to fit through the doorway of competitive exploitation, then the board of directors decides that liposuction is in order. The vacuum tubes of consultants are inserted into the ass, belly and thighs, so that the trusting fat in the form of aging workers, those with scruples and the naive can be expelled into the great void of the American Dream. A leaner company with the same insatiable appetite for exploitation is released from the responsibility of pensions and pesky health care for the gullible aging that were sold the false promise.
As of yet the business world has been unable to reproduce the marketing campaign present in religious institutions. Their main obstacle is that unlike the spirituality market where the product is invisible and intangible, the secular world is less permissive. Even with the advent of information technology and the permeation of ones and zeros in every market from pornography to health care, the businesses have yet to truly capitalize on the potential of a concept alone. Certainly, agents are able to sell ideas to publishers and producers, but their survival in the industry depends upon the finished product of the talent. For religious institutions the product is post mortem and rarely do the walking dead fill chapels, temples and mosques to air their grievances.
This advantage of the spirituality market guarantees a size advantage over the lesser secular institutions. Although there are over 5 million businesses in the United States, less than a thousand of them have more than ten thousand employees. Compare that to 99.99% of the US population belongs to 20 religions and none of those has less than 40,000 members. The market is so consolidated due to the age of the product. With well over six thousand years to work out the difficulties of defining the unknown, new religions have tremendous barriers to the market and must exist as bottom feeding cults.
The secular environment for these multi-human organizations is rife with bottom feeders. 98% of businesses in the US have fewer than 100 employees. These miniature organizations survive on the scraps left over by the dominating 2%. Will the market one day be dominated by only 20 business. Will we stop at Wal-Mart to pick up our dry cleaning, groceries, and taxes then wait in the checkout line while Timmy gets a cavity filled, Earl gets a heart scan and Suzy gets her hair trimmed and dyed. Will we all tune in to the Microsoft channel where to continue watching the season finale to the 20th season of Lost, we must purchase an upgrade to our media center software. Commercials will no longer be passive opt-in advertisement. Instead if we refuse to purchase what is advertised, the house will lose electricity, Carl's pace maker will short and the brakes in our SUV's will fail. Advertisement will take the form of threats. Insurers will provide testimonials of doctors that watched a person die a preventable death because they only had an HMO. Human beings will carry no more value than we hold toward our own cuticles and eye lashes. We will become as expendable as a change of clothes.
Without a doubt there will be individuals with inflated egos that believe themselves to posses a unique characteristic that guarantees them an advantage over behemoth organizations. They may consider certain ideas that they cultivate as viruses that can infect an organization and bring upon its demise. These people will be controlled by the evolved immune system of these multi-human organizations. These conceptual viruses must rely upon vulnerabilities for infection. Organizations could easily cap these weaknesses with red tape and psychological profiles. Those deemed deviant will be denied entry and their viral presence will be brought to the attention of other organizations and the government. The blacklist will operate as the vaccine, and the deviant will be excommunicated, destined to wander the wilderness like the other animals that deny the trap their foot.
Bottom feeders will never lose their presence. Small groups of people may join together to compete with the behemoths. Unfortunately, the point where the inception of a group could develop into a dominant presence in the secular environment has either come and gone or is too near to make a difference.
The future is basically written and the existence of man will be comparable to a cell. Our heart replace the mitochondria, our arms and legs the flagella, and our brains the nucleus. We will grow more and more specialized like the Eloi and Morlocks of Wells' "Time Machine."
With constant monitoring, the deviants must take tremendous precaution from identification. To prevent conspiring between disguised deviants, organizations will fill a person's life with public spectacle and distraction. Every free minute will be accounted for and no life will be unique. People will be packed into dance clubs, stadiums and theaters filled with deafening clamor and blinding lights, scents of food will fill the air drawing pains from the stomachs of those resistant to appetite. Despite the swarming multitudes, each will have a solitary experience, universally shared with no communication between observers. The mob will react in unison to the teleprompter governed by the media monster. Deviants will stare at each other blankly from across the crowds, communicating in the binary language of controlled blinking, waiting for the lull to cry out for freedom.
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