There are many of us who have been expecting this kind of action out of The Food Hole for some time. Now, that's it finally upon us, it's left many voices questioning with no real answers. Don't expect answers. Not from any kind of leadership anyway. We will have to create our own answers, among our peers, our friends and our allies. Many a good soldier has either jumped ship, been thrown from the boat or is still out there, squatting in the bush and trying their best to make a go of it. These are Strange Days, and it's indicative of a broader picture, one that is beyond the Food Hole - but one that reflects the corporate tenure of Our Times. There are no more Safety Nets. There never were.
"Conscious Capitalism" may be one of the funniest and greatest delusional jokes ever rendered as a fiscal philosophy, as a business ideology, and specifically as a book, which is basically a retooled version of the ever changing G.I.G.
There's a transparency at work alright...and it's called seeing through the bullshit. Selling bogus lifestyles and morals, which in turn makes the consumer feel okay about purchasing and spending freely on overpriced goods that hide behind a web of self-serving lies. Selling a "Lifestyle", "Values" and "Health of Wellbeing" through a process of "corporate fueled do-gooder styled intentions" is absolutely brilliant in a very dark sense. It frees the consumer of guilt while they spend, often times, targeting the guilt of the upwardly mobile, while promoting the company to its own workforce, as its first line agents of positive change. Yes, YOU, are making a difference, right? In the world? To the planet? For the f***ing kids?
As in any war, the ones on the front lines get hit the hardest. That would be us. The ones on the floor. On the ground. Doing the work.
We are not extensions of the companies we work for. We are human beings. We are more creative, more caring and more adaptable than a third rate group of organic business, greed heads slinging bullshit. Beware Benevolent Paternalism. Although, those days have long since passed at the Hole now.
Good Luck to all who survived the f***ing thing and more luck to those of you who are stuck inside of it, either by choice or forces beyond your control.