From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 10:22:42 MST
Rafel,
You have just given a great practical demonstration of why it is
important to keep socialists with their feet drawn up to fire of reality.
General Semanticists speak of levels of abstraction beginning with
direct impulses that come to us through our senses. The direct sensations
are abstracted into thoughts or impressions all the way to very abstract
thoughts about thoughts. Another way of saying this is that the Map is not
the territory.
Socialists love to talk about maps and maps of maps but as you have
just seen over the past few days they resist coming down to earth to deal
with the territory. That is why I flat refused to get involved in any
discussion of maps of maps in that discussion.
Consider workers. One of the most difficult things about the reality
of working is when we have to change. You can bet that when the automobile
came along the buggy whip workers would much rather have gone on making buggy
whips -- it was much more comfortable.
Right there the socialist is caught in a bind. How does he get the
worker to change? Reeducation doesn't seem to work, the new way really is
much more difficult that continuing to do things the old way. Does he give
up and accept the slow rate of change that he can get through education and
persuasion or does he turn thug to force change? As we have seen most if not
all the socialist states turn thug.
Of course there are more reasons for turning thug than what I have
just described but that only speeds the process.
There is another reason why workers complain. Please get yourself a
bridge deck. We will of course need the 52 card deck with no jokers, etc.
Now, deal out 4 bridge hands and using a watch with a second hand vary
your speed until you can do it in 30 seconds. That is by long standing
definition a 100% pace. You will find it requires your attention but not
excessively difficult.
Now vary your speed a bit to see how fast you are. If you deal the
cards as if you were in a real game you probably can't go faster than 30
seconds divided by 1.8. That is 180% of normal pace.
Finally vary your speed to deal the hand in 43 seconds. That is
equivalent to working at 70%. If you get a friend to watch you at 100% and
then again at 70%. Their job is to prevent you from changing the way you do
things in order to slow down.
You will find that working at the slower pace is much more difficult
than working at 100%.
And, there is where the socialist is really going to have to watch the
work force. People intuitively think that working slower is easier but when
they slow down things get tougher. Strange but true. If the boss keeps the
worker on the job, takes no lip, works hard to support the worker so no
problems intrude, then the workers output rises to a peak with no further
ado. If you try to speed the worker up by yelling, "faster" the gains come
only with great difficulty. If the worker is allowed to slow down and loaf
he becomes extremely tired.
But may whatever Gods you worship help you if you either coddle the
worker or try to speed him up by becoming a thug.
Ron h.
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