Especially since Godwin's Law has just been evoked!
Jake
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Well, this is the Internet. It was inevitable.
I do think he has a point, though. All it takes is enough kids raised on this "Bible" written with any message about kindness towards others and tolerance removed, and we've got a lovely self-maintaining fanatic-based religion on the go. Remember, Conservapedia is run by a leading supplier of homeschooling materials.
Let's just try to start the Jedi/Sith Religon so it's written down a real reason to kill people instead of people starting a war because someone read something someone else didn't read the same. Simple... if you want war, your a sith. If you don't want it, your a jedi. Simple enough. Of course the war would be never ending, but hey, might as well be the course were going towards to anyway! And if someone reads something a differnt way someone else didn't like how it's read, hey it's a continual war, it won't affect a damn thing.
While taking some of the more business orientated classes of my degree, it was interesting to learn how similar corporate ideas are to Sith philosophy.
The Sith are about making oneself stronger, everything they do is supposed to be about increasing their power and be willing to sacrifice/kill anything that gets between them at that goal.
Corporations are about making themselves more profitable. Everything they do is supposed to be about increasing sales/profits and be willing drop parts of themselves (employees, bad projects etc) to achieve that goal.
Of course in both cases it doesn't always work, Sith Lords/CEO's make mistakes, bad projects get funded and produced. If they're not careful leading to their downfall.
There was more to it while I don't feel like having to type up but that's the basic concept that got me thinking about it originally.
I am not sure the Sith analogy is very valid, but to more appropriate parallel would be the conflict between Shadows and Vorlons.
A business inherently wants to seek the stability of the Vorlons, to operate in a consistent, predictable environment. It's in this environment that long term strategies can be carried out and predictable profits can be generated. But it is also in these environments that business become bloated, insular and inefficient.
Conversely, businesses need the competition and "creative destruction" offered the Shadows to remain innovative and efficient. But too much competition and "destruction" leads to suppressed profits and the inability to invest in the long term.
I remember playing Knights of the Old Republic and when the Sith were describing their philosophy, I was thinking that it sounded like the Shadows. Of course, I do know that it's not like B5 or Star Wars came up with this concept.
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Jake
I do think he has a point, though. All it takes is enough kids raised on this "Bible" written with any message about kindness towards others and tolerance removed, and we've got a lovely self-maintaining fanatic-based religion on the go. Remember, Conservapedia is run by a leading supplier of homeschooling materials.
Worf
Corporations are about making themselves more profitable. Everything they do is supposed to be about increasing sales/profits and be willing drop parts of themselves (employees, bad projects etc) to achieve that goal.
Of course in both cases it doesn't always work, Sith Lords/CEO's make mistakes, bad projects get funded and produced. If they're not careful leading to their downfall.
There was more to it while I don't feel like having to type up but that's the basic concept that got me thinking about it originally.
Worf
A business inherently wants to seek the stability of the Vorlons, to operate in a consistent, predictable environment. It's in this environment that long term strategies can be carried out and predictable profits can be generated. But it is also in these environments that business become bloated, insular and inefficient.
Conversely, businesses need the competition and "creative destruction" offered the Shadows to remain innovative and efficient. But too much competition and "destruction" leads to suppressed profits and the inability to invest in the long term.
Jake