From: Jasper
Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007
Time: 06:47:15 AM
Jean, …You bet I got it. Noname could be the only person on this board who won’t get it. ……….I saw it every day in every place I worked from 1964 to my retirement in 2002. I saw it when I sold insurance, in every job I had in the Army, in my factory jobs and in my week or so as a rent-a-cop. I even saw it in unemployment offices (where your job is to get a check while you look for work and their job is to pretend to help you do it). ………. Orders would come from the top down and at every level on their way to you they would change a little to accomplish two things: 1) too look like the orders were being carried out and 2) to get the job done based on the reality of the situation. Sometimes reality would intrude upon the order and the person giving the order knew that it would. The person who is supposed to carry it out thinks that he or she must not have what it takes to do it right and fakes it or blames someone else for the failure if it doesn’t work well enough to sneak by. Life goes on. Everybody is happy – until somebody says, “Wait a minute…This can’t be right.” ………..The closer you get to the top the worse it gets. ………For instance, you’d never know that the stylists at American Motors were every bit as good as those at GM, Ford and Chrysler by all but one of the cars (the original Javelin) that came off of the AMC assembly lines. If you worked in the design studio with Bob Nixon as the studio executive you saw it. Nixon would get a nice theme going with his stylists, modelers and engineers. Then his boss Dick Teague would come in and “suggest” changes. Bob’s sense of aesthetics would make an immediate adjustment to Dick’s. If Dick thought it looked good, Bob thought it looked great. The parameters were thus set and everyone had to work within them as though they made sense. …………If the general likes the battle plan, his colonels love it. …………The Milgram obedience study http://smartfellowspress.com/Iago/appendix.htm (click on Milgram, Magic and Murder) was based on this deference to higher authority in the way people justify their action. It’s the way MOST PEOPLE lie to themselves and why they do it when they think they are contributing to something bigger than themselves. Regardless of what they see, hear or feel, they think the liar must be right – and they adjust what they see, hear and feel to accept it. …………I would say that a few people in a conspiracy ARE ALWASYS backed by many more than actually in the conspiracy. I would borrow what you said exactly the way you said it. “For various reasons they lie intentionally out of fear or unintentionally by thinking someone else’s perception is better than theirs.” ……….. Thanks Jean. –Jasper