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1. Sick Burn, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:31 JST Sick Burn, Bro
   "As institutions turn to cannibalizing each other, there is little patronage or emotional energy going towards accurately describing the wider process." hits hard, the Harvard thing really gives me strong 'institutions cannibalizing each other' vibes
   
   thesideview.co/journal/why-civilizations-collapse/
   • 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘 (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:27 JST 🐘🐘 Humpleupagus 🐘🐘

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     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     • Christmas Coon
     • BroDrillard
     It's not about having expertise, it's about being certified as an expert. There are lots of people who have worked in industries for decades and are literally experts due to experience, but they can't teach that subject matter at a university because they're not certified.
     
     On the flip side, we have people who have never worked in industries and have no real experience, but have studied it from the universities, teaching their ideations as if they're derived from real experience and reflect reality.
     
     We then act as if universities are the centers of knowledge, and push people to attend them to get certified themselves. Then we all pretend as if certification means something.
     
     This clip from Back to School isn't far off.
     
     https://youtu.be/uSLscJ2cY04?si=vem6Hoi5PzFFGinb
     Ardainian Hebrew Israelite likes this.
   • Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:28 JST Christmas Coon

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     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     • BroDrillard
     @sickburnbro @BroDrillard @ForbiddenDreamer It may even be no one thing. Nigger metalurgist, nigger bolt maker, nigger designer, nigger engineer, nigger technician, nigger maintenance. A long line of minor errors, any one of which our systems could account for by having competent people at all other steps, but now all steps in the process have degraded in quality. Expect errors to compound more and more until either the philosophy guiding our system is fixed or it breaks.
   • The Forbidden Dreamer (forbiddendreamer@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:29 JST The Forbidden Dreamer

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     @sickburnbro *laughs in Boeing*
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:29 JST BroDrillard

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     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     Well, some doors will be bolted on. Others won't.
   • Sick Burn, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:29 JST Sick Burn, Bro

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     • The Forbidden Dreamer
     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard @ForbiddenDreamer worse may be that they were bolted on but the design for the bolting was bad and made for decisions that will never be examined.
   • Sick Burn, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:30 JST Sick Burn, Bro

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     "And yet, clearly some functional institutions still exist, or our society would not function at all. At the end of the day, you can still go online and call a cab or go to a dealership and buy a car. This car will have doors bolted on by a worker you’ve never met, and these doors will seem to work."
     
     making me ill
   • Sick Burn, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:31 JST Sick Burn, Bro

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     his naming of the western thought as 'scientism' is close, but missing, it's more like 'expertism' - the cult of the expert.
   • Sick Burn, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2024 14:32:31 JST Sick Burn, Bro

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     "This compartmentalization isn’t driven by the division of labor, but rather by the need to make use of misaligned talent without empowering it. By radically limiting employees’ scope of action, you make office politics more predictable. By fragmenting available knowledge, you can leverage information asymmetries to the intellectual or material advantage of the center."
     
     this is basically managerialism. Consolidation of the power of the talent into the manager.