{"id":70353,"date":"2025-06-08T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70353"},"modified":"2025-06-07T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:43:14","slug":"qotd-the-ratchet-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/08\/qotd-the-ratchet-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The ratchet effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s well known that the people at the tippy top are raging SJWs, of course, but as anyone who has ever even tangentially worked for a GloboHomoCorp knows, the Big Bosses don’t know jack shit about even very high level stuff going on in their own companies. Big Boss, and several layers of management below Big Boss, are mainly concerned with greasing politicians and other CEOs. They have absolutely no idea what’s even going on with the North American Branch of the Customer Service Division, let alone what any individual person is up to … so those flunkies and fart catchers and butt boys way down the chain have to kiss ass on their own.<\/p>\n

What ends up happening is a kind of “ratchet effect” on steroids. The “ratchet effect”, you’ll recall, was Margaret Thatcher’s explanation for how the Left kept winning on policy even though the Right kept winning at the polls (ah, God love ya, Maggie, and give you peace). When the Left is in power, they get whatever they want. When the Right is in power, they consolidate the Left’s gains, as this is now “the new normal”. Since The Right exists only to twiddle the knobs and levers of the Leviathan State in a more efficient, cost-effective, low-tax way, the “right-wing” “reformers” find jury-rigged quasi-solutions to the problems the Left’s insanity creates.<\/p>\n

In a very real way, then, the “ratchet effect” means the so-called “Right” ends up doing the Left’s job for them, much better than they themselves could’ve.<\/p>\n

Same deal inside the divisions of GloboHomoCorp. Same deal inside the Third Reich<\/em>, which is why “working towards the F\u00fchrer<\/em><\/a>” turned so murderous, so fast. Since the only way to get noticed by the next higher-up level of “management” was to be more obnoxiously ruthless than everybody else at doing what the F\u00fchrer<\/em> seemed to be hinting that he wanted …<\/p>\n

In the corporate world, then, I theorize, super-aggressive, ultra-obnoxious SJW-ism is a ground-up phenomenon. Does the Big Boss really<\/em> want mandatory anti-Whiteness training across all divisions? Maybe … but maybe not. And though it’s tempting to say “He’s the Big Boss, he must<\/em> know at least broadly what the big divisions are up to”, do I even have to ask if you’ve ever been in a situation where that’s true? Big Bosses the world over, in any field, be they CEOs or Generals or Chief Medical Officers or what have you, don’t have the slightest clue what’s happening structurally inside their commands.<\/p>\n

All they know is what the next-lower level of management tells them<\/em> is happening.<\/p>\n

Severian, “On Selling Out”, Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2021-11-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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