{"id":8763,"date":"2011-04-11T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2011-04-11T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T13:46:13","slug":"wormme-mashes-up-theodore-sturgeon-and-frederick-winslow-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/wormme-mashes-up-theodore-sturgeon-and-frederick-winslow-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wormme mashes up Theodore Sturgeon and Frederick Winslow Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wormme.com\/2011\/04\/10\/the-worm-explains-why-were-doomed-using-sturgeons-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">wormme<\/a> read an older <em>Atlantic<\/em> article linked from Instapundit and had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Insty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2006\/06\/the-management-myth\/4883\/\" target=\"_blank\">this is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever read<\/a>. It eviscerates the myth of management competence the way that Joe Biden destroys the idea of government competence. But let\u2019s take a step back from the specifics of business management. Look at all the other occupations that share management\u2019s main trait.<\/p>\n<p>Because in reality they\u2019re all the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some fields in which competence is assumed, all evidence to the contrary: government, law, management, education, economics, scholarship, and all journalistic media.<\/p>\n<p>Notice what they all have in common? As a primary feature?<\/p>\n<p>Jaw flappin\u2019, tongue waggin\u2019, hot air spewin\u2019 talkety talk talk words blah blah <strong>blah<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThem that can, do. Them that can\u2019t, teach.\u201d And manage and report and govern. But you don\u2019t hear that adage anymore, do you? The Talkers have brainwashed people into thinking they\u2019re Doers as well.<\/p>\n<p>I expect this is the thing that actually brings down Western Civilization. The Doers letting the Talkers take over the Doings. <\/p>\n<p>The chin-waggin\u2019 industries want \u201cex cathedra\u201d status for their every mumble. How do they repay? By finding nothing but fault in the Doers: industries, energy production, \u201cbig box\u201d stores, etc., all the way down to the evil of the Happy Meal.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>still<\/em> wouldn\u2019t have spelled civilization\u2019s doom, had the Talkies remained apart. Journalism in particular is supposed to report on lies and wrongdoing. And they do so with gusto, when investigating Doers. Do you ever see them going after fellow Talkers like that? They\u2019re in cahoots. Total\u2026<em>cahoots<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wormme read an older Atlantic article linked from Instapundit and had this to say: Via Insty, this is one of the best things I\u2019ve ever read. It eviscerates the myth of management competence the way that Joe Biden destroys the idea of government competence. But let\u2019s take a step back from the specifics of business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,79,84,28],"tags":[529,261],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-education","category-government","category-media","tag-lawyers","tag-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2hl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}