Intre businessman si om politic, recunoasterea meritelor, impartirea vinelor

Oare cat geniu sa aiba cineva ca sa creada in posibilitatea de a vinde cu 12 dollars un mosorel de plastic cu un metru de sfoara infasurat pe el ? Si nu numai sa creada dar sa o si infaptuie:
Margica s-a intors luni de la scoala cu un yoyo pe care a dat 12 dollars - un mic mosor din plastic, pe care este infasurat un metru de sfoara. Atat. ATAT! Asta pe de o parte si pe de alta parte dearest, dearest Huxley, cu cinismul lui cu tot, articuland in Antic Hay, prin gura venture capitalistului Boldero, pe 10 pagini, o imbatabila si insuferabila modalitate de a face bani din patentul pentru pantaloni cu fundul gonflabil. Prinsa intre doua ganduri hilare de aparenta, partea din creier care s-a luptat cu amandoua simultan, a produs prin suprasolicitare urmatoarea teza:

Politicianul este o inventie a businessmanului. El este un divertisment iar fascinatia cu el o facatura din toate piesele.

Businessmanul este cu mult mai viciat decat politicianul. Dandu-i-se un numar oricat de mare de oameni, in timpul cel mai scurt, ii va spiona, analiza, intelege si anticipa de la primul gand si gest (gest si gand?) si pana la ultimele ale fiecarei zi. Multimea data va fi apoi manipulata eficient si jupuita in final de toti banii de care dispune. Politicianul, (in cazul in care chiar face ceva), face deja de 10 ori mai incet si nici macar o treime din cate ar opera businessmanul pe aceeasi multime. Si totusi pe businessman nu il acuza nimeni de nimic. Este meseria lui. Faptul de manipula multimi si de a se imbogati denota un talent, cu cat mai repede cu atat mai mare geniul. Pe politician in schimb nu il iarta nimeni indiferent ce ar face si si mai curios, indiferent ce ar spune. Ba chiar poate fi acuzat si cand nu face si nu spune nimic, pe baza intentiilor fie si improbabile.... vorbele care ii ies din gura ii sunt clasate in trei categorii: tentativa de manipulare, minciuna sau demagogie. Actiunile ii sunt suspecte pentru ca poate nu se vede chiar acum dar este sigur ca in curand se va dovedi ca ele aveau scopul de a-i satisface un interes personal. Si in fine, tot de neinteles, politicianul nu are voie sa se imbogateasca. Politicianului de azi i se cere sa fie mitic din timpul vietii, sa dea dovada de o abnegatie si de un altruism care nu au fost inca inventate, precum si de o cultura cvasiuniversala. Ceea ce ne face sa pierdem foarte multa vreme cu ei. Nu stiu de ce nu sunt lasati sa isi faca meseria, ca orice angajat, in plata Domnului. Ca orice angajat, ar avea doar un bilant de facut despre ce contributii notabile a avut in ultimul an, ar fi ranked si ar fi indepartat daca altii mai buni si mai competenti s-ar prezinta. Un job ! De cand si de la ce ni se trage fascinatia complet nociva cu niste oameni care nu creaza nimic? Sunt ei niste levere ale faimei, te pot propulsa pe tine si grupul tau social in lumina reflectoarelor, sa fie asta? Mi se pare ca desi se sprijina in trei puncte, viata politica sta stramb. Inseamna ca cele trei puncte nu sunt echidistante fata de centrul de greutate al societatii. Mi se confirma (a)sentimentul (cu Loke) ca puterea judecatoreasca este doar un ciot fata de puterea executiva de exemplu, ceea ce este absurd dat fiind ca executivul n-ar avea obiect al muncii de n-ar fi puterea legislativa (si judecatoreasca, trebuie sa mai studiez problema pentru ca nu inteleg de ce cea judecatoreasca si legislativa sunt apart) si nici una dintre ele n-ar avea rost daca nimeni n-ar produce nimic.
Pe scurt incerc sa spun ca ma mir ca businessworld nu dirijeaza restul lumii nemijlocit si ca politicienii nu lucreaza fatis pentru businesmani in primul rand si numai pe urma pentru echitate, caritate, moralitate. In tarile 'dezvoltate' cred ca asa si este, drept dovada ca nici un sef de stat cu putere economica nu se deplaseaza in “vizita de lucru” fara marii sefi de intreprindere si nu pune pret pe nimic mai mult decat pe smuls promisiuni de contracte. Dintre exemplele care m-au marcat recent: (dintr-un articol despre omul din spatele functiei Putin)

Il veut donc conquérir Merkel. « Pendant des semaines, il a réfléchi à la façon dont il pourrait lui faire plaisir », raconte un témoin. Le 10 octobre, il arrive donc avec le « cadeau du tsar » : le gaz de Chtokman ne rejoindra pas les Etats-Unis comme prévu, mais il alimentera le pipeline construit sous la mer Baltique en partenariat avec les Allemands. Or, surprise, Merkel accueille froidement la nouvelle et le remercie du bout des lèvres. Poutine le vit comme une gifle.

http://www.lepoint.fr/content/monde/article?id=17004

sau mai demult

Vladimir Poutine et Gerhard Schröder ont trouvé matière à sceller leur amitié : un gazoduc.
http://www.lepoint.fr/content/monde/article?id=21309

si mai departe :

The Indian government's decision to purchase 50 Boeing aircraft to replenish Air-India's fleet has not gone down well in many European capitals, especially Paris and Brussels … Before the Boeing deal was clinched, there was hectic lobbying by American and European officials with their Indian counterparts. According to one report, United States President George W. Bush had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting India to consider the offer from Boeing sympathetically.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is said to have also lobbied strongly for Boeing as she did for Lockheed Martin, the manufacturers of F-16s. Both Boeing and Lockheed Martin are pillars of the U.S. military-industrial complex.


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Aldous Huxley/Antic Hay/(selectiuni din discursul venture capitalistului Boldero catre Gumbril posesorul patentului pentru pantaloni cu fundul gonflabil, care discurs se intinde pe vreo 10 uimitoare pagini)

“On our advertising campaign” he went on with a certain solemnity, “will depend the failure or success of our enterprise... we must set to work scientifically… we have to appeal to the great instincts and feelings of humanity. They are the source of action. They spend the money, if I may put it like that...
'That’s all very well', said Gumbril 'But how do you propose to appeal to the most important of the instincts? I refer as you may well imagine to sex'.
“I was just going to come to that” said Mr. Boldero …'You make the error of the Viennese. You exaggerate the importance of sex. After all, my dear Mr. Gumbril, there is also the instinct of self-preservation, there is also the social instinct, the instinct of herd'.(...)
Both of them as powerful as sex… So that we shall be all right if we stick to self-preservation and the herd. Rub in comfort and utility… aim at their dread of public opinion, at their ambition to be one better than their fellows and their terror of being different- at all the ludicrous weaknesses a well-developed social instinct exposes them to. We shall get them if we get to work scientifically'. …
We shall have to speak about the glories and the trials of sedentary labour. We must exalt its spiritual dignity and at the same time condemn its physical discomforts. “The seat of honour” don’t you know. We could talk about that. ‘The Seat of the Mighty’….We must make the bank clerk and the civil servant feel proud of being what they are and at the same time feel ashamed that, being such splendid people, they should have to submit to the indignity of having blistered hind-quarters. In modern advertising you must flatter your public…

…Our modern flattery must be manly, straight forward, sincere, the admiration of equal for equal- all the more flattering as we aren’t equals”. Mr. Boldero laid a finger to his nose. “They’re dirt and we’re capitalist….” He laughed.
“We flatter them” went on Mr. Boldero “We say that honest work is glorious and ennobling-which it isn’t; it’s merely dull and cretinising”….
“After that” said Mr. Boldero “ we get on to the medical side of the matter. The medical side, Mr. Gumbril- that’s most important. Nobody feels really well now- at any rate nobody who lives in a big town and does the kind of loathsome work that the people we’re catering for does. Keeping this fact before our eyes, we have to make it clear that only those can expect to be healthy who wear pneumatic trousers”.
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All we have to do is to talk about the great nerve of the spine

We’ll have to talk very scientifically about the great lumbar ganglia- if there are such things, which I really don’t pretend to know. We’ll even talk almost mystically about the ganglia. You know that sort of ganglion philosophy?” Mr. Boldero went on parenthetically. “Very interesting it is, sometimes, I think. We could put in a lot about the dark powerfull sense-life, sex-life, inctinct-life which is controlled by the lumbar ganglion…
“This sort of medical dope” Mr. Boldero went on, “is always very effective, if it’s properly used. The public to whom we are making our apeal is of course, almost absolutely ignorant on these, or indeed, on almost all other subjects. It is therefore very much impressed by the unfamiliar words; particularly if they have such a good juicy sound as the word ganglia’.”
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And they are also greatful. They’re greatful to us for having given them a piece of abstruse, unlikely information which they can pass on to their wives, or to such friends as they know don’t read the paper…
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And by means of the ganglia, as I’ve pointed out, we can even show that the trousers will be good for their souls and the whole human race at large… there’s nothing like a spiritual message to make things go. Combine spirituality with practicality and you’ve fairly got them. Got them, I may say, on toast. Decidedly he conlculded “we shall have to work those ganglia all we can”
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“Then it’s very important,” continued Mr. Boldero, “to play on their snobbism; to exploit that painful sense of inferiority which the iggnorant and ingenuous always feel in the presence of the knowing.
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The novelty business. People feel superior if they possess something new which their neighbours haven’t got. The mere fact of newness is an intoxication. We must encourage that sense of superiority, brew up that intoxication. The most absurd and futile objects can be sold because they are new. Not long ago I sold four milion patent soap-dishes of a new and peculiar kind…"

si atunci uitandu-ma la yoyo-ul margicii m-am inspaimantat, caci el nu este fiction, el este in realitate, la mine in casa.