Yapping away at power confirms it. Acting reasonably towards those with the guns doesn't get them to play nice. It's showing them your soft white dog belly. Unless you're clever enough to use that as cover, it's to no avail.
Want [insert wealthy, powerful bastard's name] to listen, to pay attention?
Frighten him.
It's no guarantee that you'll get what you want - but he'll stop treating you like one of the interchangeable, faceless help.
If you want to keep up the appearance of a faceless servant, well...
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
A truth.
ReplyDeleteWorks because their motive is fear, which means it's also their trigger for action. If that's not too redundant.
Thing is, most of us (in my experience) know this, because most of us have worked or are still working for a hierarchy which operates by (1) restricting or limiting information, (2) punishing transgressors, (3) promoting predators and (4) capturing clients/consumers.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about fear - fear that we learn, because our evolutionarily useful limbic system, and instincts, have been turned on us by a decade of education. Or, in less complex societies, by abuse and degradation which is more direct, if less comprehensive.
We are conditioned - deliberately, see Gatto - to believe in a security and access (this changes according to your class, your level in it, and your degree of influence/worth to the ruling faction) that can, from time we join it and forward, *be taken away at any time.*
So all our fight/flight inheritance becomes reconditioned towards the preservation of status which is tethered to very material benefits.
This is the genius of "civilization,' to organize what should be unwieldy and chaos engendering orders of persons into manageable bits of data and activity, by training their evolutionary inheritance into schemes of self-limitation.
Respect,
Jack
That's a comment that should be a post if I've ever seen one.
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