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NonaFarahnikFirstPaper 25 - 18 Apr 2010 - Main.NonaFarahnik
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| | | “The actual habits and attitudes which operate under the banner of the creed to make the institution effective have a slightly obscene appearance. Nice people do not want to discuss them, except for the purpose of getting rid of them.” | |
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< | For Arnold, institutions are a necessary corollary to our human sociality. Every organization--from a little league baseball team, to the US Coast Guard, to the now defunct Lehman-- appeals to that sociality through a unique institutional culture furthered by self-fulfilling propaganda. An easy way to see the functioning of these orders is when Potential New Members are being recruited by competing institutions: fraternity rush, admitted student days, law firm happy hours, etc. Once a member has been initiated, the institution can heighten its control by using its ordering principles to motivate its adherents and to sharply demarcate us from them. | >
> | For Arnold, institutions are a necessary corollary to our human sociality. Every organization--from a little league baseball team, to the US Coast Guard, to the now defunct Lehman-- appeals to that sociality through a unique institutional culture furthered by self-fulfilling propaganda. An easy way to see the functioning of these orders is when Potential New Members are being recruited by competing institutions: fraternity rush, admitted student days, law firm happy hours, etc. Once a member has been initiated, the institution can heighten its control by using its ordering principles to motivate its adherents and to sharply demarcate us from them. This is not to say that institutional distinctions are a bad thing... provide something to compare our behavior to in a world devoid of standards... And as Arnold says, effective because they can be used by both sides. We can torture because we are not them... we do not torture because we are not them... | | | Coupled with our sociality (and perhaps developed alongside it), is our desire for a world narrative with inherent meaning and order. That need for outwardly-existing (often divine) order stifles our ability to question reality and to recognize how more pervasive and ordering institutions can manipulate public attitude and thought. Thus, we recognize these forces only when the context of the institution's functioning is benign (Santa), or so blatant as to make us uncomfortable about its effectiveness (Nazi Germany). Otherwise, we operate as if these forces do not exist. This is reflected through the purposive content, but underlying ignorance of the New York Times’ Where Fear Turns Graphic. | | | "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." | |
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> | A model of how framing the structure for people can make things happen. Finding common ground tha appeals to everyone and connect them through a shared vision, and if you can take a step further a shared experienceLet's Do It. This is an especially effective example because it shows how the decentralization if information reduces the need for state entities to do the social work that is characteristic to its existence. | | | | |
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> | Even if traditional organizational models are destroyed and organizations can't centralize thier PR/voice, a facet of an organization can be the multiplicity of its voices. | | | |
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