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0404 Chapter six concerns the marriage between globalist corporations and wokeism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was it an arranged marriage?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0405 As it turns out, marriage is evolutionarily ancient.  It evolves as an adaptation in the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.  In our current Lebenswelt,<\/em> which is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in,<\/em> marriage involves individuals in communityA<\/sub>coming into organizationB<\/sub> under the auspices of societyC<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0406 In the series, How To Define the Word “Religion” and Related Primers<\/em> (by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues), the family<\/em> is discussed in three of the ten primers.  In The First Primer on the Organization Tier,<\/em> the family is an example of the entire organizationB<\/sub> tier.  In The Second Primer on the Organization Tier,<\/em> the family serves as an example of a corporationaB<\/sub>, occupying the contenta<\/sub> level of the organizationB<\/sub> tier.  In A Primer on the Family,<\/em> the family embodies an institution3aC<\/sub>, occupying the slot for normal-context3<\/sub> on the contenta<\/sub>-level of the societyC<\/sub> tier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0407 Given these promotions, I picture below two of the tiers as interscopes<\/em>.  In general, the three levels of an interscope are contenta<\/sub>, situationb<\/sub> and perspectivec<\/sub>.  For each tier, each level gets its own label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0408 Woke-ism is an institution3aC<\/sub>, corresponding to an infra-sovereign religion, that calls upon sovereign power3aC<\/sub> in order to enforce its organizational objectives2aC<\/sub>.  Woke-ism fuses order1bC<\/sub> and righteousness1aC<\/sub>, and considers the fusion as opportunity1c<\/sub>, in regards to the post-truth condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Righteousness1aC<\/sub> put the organizationB<\/sub> tier into perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0409 Globalist corporations, as corporations, belong to the contenta<\/sub> level of the organizationB<\/sub> tier.  These corporationsaB<\/sub>seek to manipulate business conditions in their favor through machinations on the societyC<\/sub> tier.  In particular, they want sovereign power3bC<\/sub> to assist in manipulating market exchangebB<\/sub> and protecting shareholder… or is it?.. stakeholder investmentcB<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0410 What about the “family” that comes into existence when globalist corporations<\/em> host an ideology that hybridizes capitalism and socialism, relies on expertise, and expects scrappy players not to see that “success2c<\/sub>” no longer means “getting ahead2a<\/sub>” and instead means “the promulgation of a global-corporate empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it looks more or less like the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0411 Woke-ism is a international sovereign religion.  Woke-ism is an infrasovereign religion that has successfully embedded itself within the organs of sovereign power in different jurisdictions.  The reason that woke-ism works<\/em> comes from the convenience that the scientismist one3aC<\/sub> recognizes no relational object2cC<\/sub> capable of transcending the positivist intellect<\/em>.  The positivist intellect<\/em> has a rule<\/em>.  Metaphysics<\/em> is not allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, metaphysics is required in order to call all things into relation1cC<\/sub><\/em> on the suprasovereign level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0412 Globalist corporations are concerned about sustainabilitycB<\/sub>, or long-term profitability within diverse jurisdictionscB<\/sub>.  Capital will flow towards the most “friendly” jurisdictions.  International exchangesbB<\/sub> foster supply chains.  Supplies are manufacturedaB<\/sub> in a variety of jurisdictions.  Global corporations use capital flows in order to maximize profits from their supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts in capitalism<\/em> are required to conduct business in all aspects of the organization tier, from assessmentcB<\/sub> to supply chainsbB<\/sub> to human resourcesaB<\/sub>. In chapter seven, Ramaswamy shows how experts in capitalism<\/em> may use experts in socialism<\/em> in order to distract from exploitation and other criminal behaviors.  In chapter six, Ramaswamy suggests that experts in socialism may co-opt experts in capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0413 Ramaswamy tells a story about value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my variation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 1970, economist Milton Friedman proclaims that the social purpose of a corporation<\/em> is to pursue profit.  Profits maximize value to the shareholders<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years later, the infamous expert Klaus Schwab writes “The Davos Manifesto” calling for a code of ethics for all business leaders.  There is more to exchangebB<\/sub> than customers and products.  One must also consider the investors who are sensitive to their social responsibilities<\/em>.  These investors call for “ethical capitalism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0414 This butting of heads occurs right in the middle of the Third Battle of the Enlightenment Gods: The Cold War among Materialist Ideologies<\/em> (1945-1989).  Obviously, Friedman’s ideology is capitalism.  Klaus Schwab’s ideology is a variation of socialism.  The genius of Schwab’s formulation?  His version of socialism<\/em> can hybridize with Friedman’s version of capitalism<\/em> in order to produce an intersection called, “stakeholder capitalism”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stakeholder capitalism requires two styles of expertise.  The first style consists of capitalists who regard their “social responsibility” as turning a profit.  The second style consists of socialists who see value in nudging investor’s money towards righteousness.  The first style focuses on transactional or financial value2H<\/sub>.  The second style promotes transcendental or social value2V<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0415 The intersection of capitalist and socialist expertise<\/em> constitutes a single actuality, <\/em>labeled “value2b<\/sub>“.  Value2b<\/sub><\/em> stands at the heart of the post-truth interscope<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, the psychometric sciences2b<\/sub><\/em> sound like an arranged marriage between two old ideological rivals, who finally discover that they have ‘something’ in common,<\/em> thanks to the empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub>,<\/em> in the service of the one of scientism3c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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