Posted on 06/18/2023 11:11:01 PM PDT by wastoute
As a physician I was told by the hospital there was a 90 minute meeting that was REQUIRED I needed to put on my schedule. Turns out it was a “seminar” of sorts. A guest speaker was brought in who was a consultant in communications. The reason (announced in advance) was the guest speaker was a being brought in as part of a campaign to “change the business model” of the hospital. Seems the “businessmen” realized the organization was suffering “from a lack of input by the physicians (insightful, eh?). There wanted to transform the model to include physicians in all decision making at executive levels. Brave.
The Title of his talk was (paraphrased) “The thing you can’t talk about destroys everything it touches.” Freudian, huh? He proceeded to tell his story. Years earlier he had joined a consultantcy firm of businessmen, lawyers, and himself (about a half dozen or so.). They would be invited by organizations that recognized they were failing and his firm would come in and examine the organization top to bottom to discover “the cause”. Initially, he unfolded his story, they had examined everything, top to bottom, side to side. However, after just a few iterations they began to notice there were things that were never the problem so they quit looking at them. The books, for instance. Accounts had done their job.
Eventually, they learned they needed but one thing and they could usually discover that thing in less than a day by randomly interviewing the member or employees. That thing was that were was something, always that could not be talked about. A “cognitive hole” unique to the organizations culture. They discovered they could track the history of when that thing began and how it had, over time, gradually destroyed more and more.
I mentioned Freud earlier on purpose. You see, if you know Freud he had discovered the power of the secret much earlier. So the question becomes, “What of Secrets?” Are they always malignant? Are some secrets more malignant than others?
Briefly, let’s examine these questions. Everyone with a military background knows bout Operational Security, OpSec. Is it malignant? Does it destroy everything it touches? Clearly the answer is no. So now we have introduced dynamic tension into the debate.
If secrets are malignantly destructive how can this threat be avoided? I would submit that our National Security apparatus is and has been so damaged by the malignant nature of the secrets they have kept they are now a hollow group of dysfunctional (anti socially so, an individual would be tried and convicted) people, largely as individuals and thoroughly as an organization.
The world is currently undeniably entered recently into a “Zietgeist Shift” (hat tip Jung). Zeitgeist Shifts are accompanied by Tsunamis of change, which is, of course, why global elements have precipitated this one. Our challenge as Christians is to respond appropriately to this threat. What that means, how it turns out, is anyone’s guess. “All there is in this world is money and sex and money isn’t real.” We cannot afford to lose this fight for losing would be the Second Crucification.
no financial problems were found.
Never be surprised that the world is evil. And the world will get much, MUCH more evil as the last days approach.
I will say this. There has recently been the onset of a Zeitgeist Shift which will precipitate a Tsunami of change. Read the Unabomber’s Manifesto. The Industrial Society has been a disaster for mankind. Watch as man’s relationship to technology profoundly changes.
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