business as usual good for business 2 of 2

BUSINESS AS USUAL GOOD FOR BUSINESS part 2

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Yeh, yeh, merry friggin Christmas!  A humping happy new friggin year.  Bah!  Humbug!
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If you look all around you on a scale smaller than empire, you can easily see examples of how True Believers can extend and protect the life of a failing organization.  How cheerleading by the players themselves ( one imagines football players, being large lumbering Neanderthals incapable of thought [ “we went out there and gave 110%!” ] need a separate body of cheerleaders as they are incapable of self direction.  The cheerleads are there to instruct the players [ “GO, team!” leads to the player thinking to themselves, “what was I doing?  Oh, okay, I’ll GO!” ] ) does indeed extend the shelf life of the organization.  Look at teachers.  I’ve had plenty and at least half or more were still  energetic enough to retain their initial enthusiasm to instruct the youth of the day.  I’ve had teachers so intent on mission they were eventually fired for failing to stay on the different official mission by instructing from textbooks only ( the best teachers, those that inspired me for life, connected the dots that the texts barely covered-and one can only imagine there are far fewer of those today ).  I think teachers as a whole, not the aged mentally and spiritually or the administrators but the actual teachers, are a dedicated and inspiring bunch.  Yet look at the system they are forced to work in.  Money goes to everything BUT student instruction ( football players and stadiums and attendance and fundraising ) while testing is done not to ascertain learning but to give the FedGov statistics to use to pretend our country is not 109^th in math or 97^th in science globally ( some Bush Bitch walking barefoot through Muslim terrorist country to go to a school with a thatched roof does better, or would do better if not for gaming the tests we do, on her scores than most of our students in affluent neighborhoods getting thousands of dollars per student in their schools do ).

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That our schools are not mere warehouses for juvenile delinquents more than what they already are is testament to the hard work of the teachers there.  The work of training the students isn’t hard, they are natural sponges up to a certain point, but the hard work is done fighting their own organization to get any teaching done in the first place.  Or, look at the military.  Do you think the officers running the place are doing anything other than hindering anything getting done?  In peacetime the lower ranks, primarily junior NCO’s, are essentially getting the necessary work done DESPITE orders to the contrary, and usually at the expense of a career as the price they pay is being pressured out for unconformity.  In wartime, their lives are on the line as those in charge do everything wrong keeping them alive. 

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The teachers that teach despite hindrances and the leaders that lead despite contrary orders are the ones getting results, but they don’t advance the survivability of the organization.  Those teachers and sergeants that give in and drink the Kool-Aid, and then still have some drive and energy from their idealistic days, drive the organization.  Once the insane work load  batters them down they take their place alongside the short-timers nearing retirement as being carried by newer blood, but still have enough evangelical fever left to push the new blood to the desired direction.  Newcomers who fight the system can leave or adapt to groupthink.  Those older members unit to drive out the non-adaptors, which is their primary job as it requires less energy and is suited to their skills they’ve learned surviving in place over the years.  The young converts have the energy to supervise the new arrivals whose job it is to do all the work before either burnout or conversion.  Nothing is actually done by the converts except keeping the organization in place, but just enough real work is done by the new arrivals to justify the entire system to outsiders.  Job security ensures organizational survival.

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