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August 31, 2015
We don’t make stuff anymore. We make assholes.
The store is an Asshole Factory. Our world is now full of Asshole Factories. That’s what the stores, offices, industrial parks, skyscrapers, malls, low-rise blocks, gleaming headquarters, whimsically designed corporate campuses, really are. It’s the grand endeavor of today. We don’t make stuff anymore. We make assholes. The Great Enterprise of this age is the Asshole Industry. --The Asshole Factory
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 31, 2015 8:51 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Welcome to Assholia, right next to Shitholia.
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at August 31, 2015 10:45 AM
"But because she has to."
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Wrong.
She chose to be an asshole.
Posted by: ghostsniper at August 31, 2015 10:50 AM
This reads like a version CS Lewis' "Screwtape Hell" where The Demons purpose is to make a soul an 'Extension of itself - no more capable of independent thought than an arm or a leg.
Chilling.
The trouble with purposeful manipulation of using psychology to reach your goal - instead of the customers goal - is that it is really 'social warfare': ESPECIALLY if the customer is not AWARE of it being used.
Once the customer is are of being gamed, they will adjust accordingly and then a new form of manipulation is required to trick them into buying 'stuff'. This will go on and on until the customer finally says "I'm sick of buying from Jerks".
Then it is over.
Our civilization has not reached that point yet, but the level of 'ick' is rising.
Posted by: John Condon at August 31, 2015 12:16 PM
"Our civilization has not reached that point yet, but the level of 'ick' is rising."
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Some of us are already there to varying degrees.
I don't shop, I buy....and very little at that.
Ammo and grub.
Posted by: ghostsniper at August 31, 2015 2:18 PM
I think for all of us,the world starts filling up with assholes around the time we hit 40 or so, and is filled to the brim by the time we hit 75 or 80. That's how it worked for me.
Posted by: BillH at August 31, 2015 2:27 PM
Celebrate Assholes Get a Punch in the Face Day.
Thanks Mike James for this:
I'm about to become an enthusiastic chasmatician just writing this.
chas·ma·ti·cian (chăs-mə-tĭsh′ən) n.
A person skilled or learned in punching people in the face who rate it.
My Uncle Letsgo said " efry vun got asshole, efen chickens. Some people, they got zwei, mebbe drei asshole, da vay dey act".
Posted by: chasmatic at August 31, 2015 8:17 PM