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Irises - 1889
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I do not go out to ’nightlife’ beyond restaurants though. But I never much did

I go out on my own all the time!
And today at the café I even saw someone who had a book I had read (‘Some Trick’, short stories by Helen DeWitt’ and they had read the book I am 2/3 through (‘The Game Warden’/‘The Death of a Craft’/‘The Last Wolf’ by Laszlo Krasznahorkai)

Brb, becoming an ophthalmologist before getting my medical license revoked for publishing a paper like this (probably not even an atypical kind of trajectory for the 18th or 19th centuries tbh)

Wotan’s lack of depth perception from having just 1 eye is why he had to always find things out from the chthonic mother herself (Erda) 🙏

I endorse randomly pelting most corporate executives or carceral enforcers spontaneously with tomatoes or sandwiches, what have you, in the street, but not ‘in stocks & decreed by the state’

You see there is no way this narrative is an accident or just ‘following the Zeitgeist’ but really wtf even

They are trying to get you all to think the prospect of being ridiculed for saying one should be able to afford a cheese sandwich is ‘halcyon days’ by comparison 🙃

Check those numbers for Reform & Tories, I think you guys have a real sadism problem there, even 10% is too much, wtf indeed.
And also when we talk about ‘controlling the public conversation and what issues are discussed’, Jesus Christ 😅

Almost no children would choose to do a thing like that though

This coincidentally is least-true in New England

Ah, interesting. Sometimes those words could be used here but it’s pretty transparent what’s really going on as what’s unacceptable is to deviate from procedure and what is acceptable is any level of personal discomfort or distress (up to death, for those not able to afford for instance health care)

Well, we certainly have a lot of that here too. But it’s very clear that part (if we speak for instance of company devolution of ‘who is responsible for adhering to technology-related contractual paperwork’) is just a divestment of responsibility to absolve company higher-ups legally

One bad thing is he may not have gotten even his small pension that he did, upon exiting after 10 years due to his underlying health deterioration. On the other hand maybe modern medicine could have helped although if it was blood vessel issues in the brain, it really depends where

I wonder what this difference is, considering we were both empires past or present.
Perhaps it is actually a certain sort of busybody humanism entering the state, which for us has never done so enough for the place to even be at any time so humane. But then again, is it really so there either?… 🤔

You have something in the UK that ppl used to call or perceive as ‘the nanny state’ but whenever I heard it I thought it was kind of odd because that would imply caretaking responsibility whereas our concept of authority is a sort of god who does not provide nor care if one lives or dies

One difference in terms of his work would be he probably would not have gotten his doctorate & professorship at 25 but a bit later, and he would have had many more scathing things to say about academe than he even did in the ‘Anti-Education’ lectures 😄

(he specifically claimed to have it so that people would assume he was a bellicose person & tread carefully, when in truth his vision was very bad & deteriorating). Now was this a joke? Make your own decision… 😄

You know how it would be though, if it were as similar as possible he would be a man with ambiguously-written books that became wilder over time but read by increasingly few, and utterly unproblematic irl behavior like before. And would be a professor but quit by 35.
The mustache would do its work—

How many ppl do you feel are not mentally 12 anymore

In the US, women went into all fields including manufacturing (our earliest unions had a lot of them), & not just starting in 1969 or 1979 or something, but disproportionally ending up in service sector/retail.
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I think the UK may have a lot of admin in general like the Austro-Hungarian Empire

I think maybe the UK was deranged by Thatcherism to the point of scapegoating a gender whereas we had Reagan doing the same thing in the 80s

Right, but here I think that would be incredibly atypical

That seems quite high, I would make sure ‘admin’ is not being defined as ‘receptionists/secretaries/office logistics’, as that is what ‘admin assistant’ means here, & is actually rather different than what I mean.
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But perhaps the UK is like this

PS: Graeber also describes how this can happen as private companies drive hourly employees to the breaking point for the sake of ‘efficiency’ but this money is used to further swell the ranks of salaried retainers. Who as epiphytes have nothing to do but try to find further efficiency- elsewhere!

In fact, at the unholy intersection of public & private, it can often be caused by the govt contracting things out & then demanding metrics, so it is very often in the realm of ‘accounting’ or ‘bean counters’ 🤷🏻‍♀️
Though as I said it definitely becomes a domain of managerial feudal expansion of fiefs 😄

I realize in academe & health here, there is a huge explosion of ‘admin’ but that is mostly the collection & display of spurious metrics & falls under David Graeber’s ‘managerial feudalism’… it exists in engineering too, sadly🙃
I repeat that it is not gendered here nor necessarily part of HR at all

It must be a UK thing for there to be any appreciable HR bureaucracy rather than some incredibly brief trainings or occasional informational emails.
HR in my experience is a parallel and mostly separate structure like say facilities/operations department (building & parking lot stuff)

Just think, you could be making elaborate calligraphic documents in the 19th century tsarist bureaucracy🧐 hm, possibly preferable (except none of those clerks seemed able to afford proper clothing)

One has to show a plausible picture of something preferable for ppl to want something different
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