Bush plays the "Who's crazy here, you or me?" game
i'm very familiar with this game... in its most in-your-face version, it's played by kids who, when confronted by parents or an adult about something they did wrong, offer a totally cock-and-bull version of what happened, non-verbally daring the accuser to prove otherwise... by doggedly sticking to the story, they can (and often do) create doubt in the accuser, creating doubt in his or her grasp of the facts or even of reality... that's the "who's crazy here, you or me?" game...
i've witnessed and been party to its adult, more sophisticated, more insidious version that is played daily in the organizational world of work... you know in your heart that the sun rises in the east... you've even seen it yourself a few times... but, here is this organizational authority, complete with an important title and possibly even a corner office, insisting to you that the sun rises in the west... many times you walk away vowing to yourself to get up early the next day to check it out once again and see if maybe you aren't mistaken...
see how this works...? in the organizational world, if you end up getting all pissed off, you mark yourself as "NOT A TEAM PLAYER," an organizational misfit who isn't willing to support "ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES" and may eventually find yourself out on the street... in the united states of america organization, you're branded as being opposed to what's good for the country, possibly even as a traitor, and, if bush has his way, you may find yourself held without recourse as a threat to the nation... Submit To Propeller
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i've witnessed and been party to its adult, more sophisticated, more insidious version that is played daily in the organizational world of work... you know in your heart that the sun rises in the east... you've even seen it yourself a few times... but, here is this organizational authority, complete with an important title and possibly even a corner office, insisting to you that the sun rises in the west... many times you walk away vowing to yourself to get up early the next day to check it out once again and see if maybe you aren't mistaken...
President Bush said terrorists will win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq, as he and Vice President Cheney escalated their rhetoric Monday in an effort to turn out Republican voters in next week's midterm elections.
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"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of about 5,000 GOP partisans packed in an arena at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, one of his stops Monday. "That's what's at stake in this election. The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq."
see how this works...? in the organizational world, if you end up getting all pissed off, you mark yourself as "NOT A TEAM PLAYER," an organizational misfit who isn't willing to support "ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES" and may eventually find yourself out on the street... in the united states of america organization, you're branded as being opposed to what's good for the country, possibly even as a traitor, and, if bush has his way, you may find yourself held without recourse as a threat to the nation... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
10/31/2006
