Sunday Thoughts

It has been fascinating to watch the Haitian cat devouring meme go viral as it was both hilarious and illustrative of the problem facing the managerial regime. Largely due to Musk owning Twitter, now stupidly called X, there was little the regime could do to stop the spread of AI generated images of Trump defending house pets from Kamala and her animalistic Haitians. Regime toadies online were left to snootily do the “but actually” meme in response to it.

It reminded people of 2016 when clever people created MAGA art as well as anti-Clinton meme campaigns that were often far cleverer than what came from Trump. This is why they moved heaven and earth to shut this stuff down for the 2020 election. There is no way we get the Haitian cat devouring story if the cranks were still running Twitter. Of course, this assumes that workarounds had not been found to get around the censorship.

That last bit is the real problem with the managerial system. Over time it becomes inward looking and insular, so it is unable to lead the conversion among those over whom it rules, which means it cannot adequately respond to criticism. Its attempts to control what is being said become increasingly heavy handed, while the efforts to circumvent the new controls get increasingly sophisticated. You see this play out in companies with weak management.

It is a universal truth of human existence that strong, confident leadership responds to criticism either by taking the criticism to heart and responding accordingly or by pretending to take the criticism to heart while quietly ignoring it. The strong leader knows that some criticism is good, so he strikes a balance between discouraging insubordination and encouraging supportive criticism. The weak leader treats all critics as threats to his power.

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• The Race
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