“This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.”
—channelling his inner John Gault
“These companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus,” [Ma…
“This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.”
—channelling his inner John Gault
“These companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus,” [Matt] Taibbi wrote, “although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed.”
Isaacson acidly observes:I think the second half of his sentence is more true than the first.”
Evidence of that? What’s the best way to be “persuaded”? Let the underlings you’re trying to control think they’re on the team without knowing it, so that they become “Useful idiots”.
Sounds as if Isaacson is on the team and doesn’t have to be fully “persuaded”
“This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. And when they quit taking risks, their arteries harden. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.”
—channelling his inner John Gault
“These companies seem not to have had much choice in being made key parts of a global surveillance and information control apparatus,” [Matt] Taibbi wrote, “although evidence suggests their Quislingian executives were mostly all thrilled to be absorbed.”
Isaacson acidly observes:I think the second half of his sentence is more true than the first.”
Evidence of that? What’s the best way to be “persuaded”? Let the underlings you’re trying to control think they’re on the team without knowing it, so that they become “Useful idiots”.
Sounds as if Isaacson is on the team and doesn’t have to be fully “persuaded”