pinkfloydpsw's Blog

Y’all need to watch the apprentice, it’s this show about a bunch of overconfident dim-witted unlikeable souls with soft hands that have likely never been bothered by real work, being condescended to by an unfunny bearded git that has two lackies and a room of potential butt-lickers baying to career-laugh at every word of his well scripted drivel, and all this for being shit at doing a task they’ve got zero experience in, and have had about 10 minutes to learn. Our protagonists all believe of themselves that they are born leaders and definitely not just team members, and this abundance of ill conceived and unwarranted self belief gives them license to school the industry specialists that they will meet later in this project, as if they are now the expert simply because they’re on a TV show.

And so, each sets about very deliberately to ruin what they’re trying to achieve by torpedoing and undermining every idea each other nitwit spouts out. His lordship Sugar will punish those that keep their head down and are too quiet though, so it’s not an option to fail to participate in the childishness, a paradox I’m sure but thankfully it would never occur to one of these attention seekers. After an inevitable outcome to this disastrous task, one that resembles maybe the worst organized monkey shit fight at the zoo you could imagine, comes the the washup where individuals from one group will compete to survive to the next round of this gameshow by strongly begging the bearded git to believe they are shit but the others present are much shitter, all whilst the team that didn’t lose (I can’t say win) acts like they’re vindicated winners, then they act friendly and nice with each other as if all the bitterness, back biting and bitching we just watched were a role rather than the real them. 

You have to do a thing to know a thing, like many people I have studied many disciplines (that’s not a brag, lots of folks are good at things they know about or work at), but the study prepares for the real world, it is not the thing itself in itself. In economics the most important thing you learn is that people don’t act rationally with their money, so all theory is just that, guiding principle for the study, one must be willing to be surprised.

In politics you learn how people’s voting should follow their beliefs but when you look at who gets elected and what they intend to do you see that the MP is not aligned with the general will of the person’s they claim to represent and elect them. More often they’re the least worst or the best conperson. Let’s take David Amess’s voting record for example, he was a man popular in his constituency who consistently voted for poverty policies that had really negative impacts on the major demographic of that region. In philosophy the things that make sense rarely get off the page, people are much more complicated and less consistent that they even believe themselves to be, in fact people are generally way off when assessing their own morals and judgements and oftentimes easily caught out when pressed. 

I suppose if this program is an insight into what we can expect when these folks daddies and social networks enable them to leapfrog any real knowledge or experience to arrive inevitably into positions of power and influence, like running an NHS trust toward financial ruin, steering a bank in the direction of market manipulation, or becoming a member of parliament for the conservatives, then it’s a pretty good wake-up call and an indication that we were forewarned. I’d like to see the penalty changed from “you’re fired” to “here’s a hungry bear for you to wrestle”, that would sort them out maybe, although it would be unlikely to impact their confidence. Thankfully though most businesses survive, not because of their leadership, but in spite of it. Workers fill the gaps left by leadership because workers are more invested in the success of the company that the bosses, what with having bills n schnizzle to address. What we can surmise is that these kinds of people are a good fit only for these kinds of people, and since we find these kinds of people already in the boardrooms and marketing departments of large companies (their daddies and school ties enabling them), talking nonsense to each other and throwing buzz phrases about like a dog with a rope, we know that success is almost already guaranteed. They’d have to do a Ratner to fuck it up.

What’s sickening is that we have given over so much to people like this, our government is an example of that

And we’ve given this type the power of what is good, to endorse, to define thru influence what shall be popular, and to bring what they are paid for to the fore. This dynamic removes autonomy, it stops our individuality rather than promoting it in the way capitalism promises us it will. We are slaves to these types and their motivations, I mean it’s not what that nitwit from Love Island said that was so offensive (it was just the usual work harder liberal nonsense), it was that there were people who, in a quite self-flagellating way, absorbed her words and turned them at themselves, bolstering the idea that if they work 50 hours a week and can’t hardly pay the bills that it’s their own fault and not the fault of people like Molly who offshores her business so as not to incur taxation, then has the gall to tell others why they are so poor.

Paul S Wilson