Comments on: (Not Necessarily) Talking ’Bout a Revolution

By: darrell

darrell — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:19:56 +0000

‘Create anything but I’ll break your fucking arms if you draw on the furniture’ is very much how those Japanese businesses felt. And the welder-drones bent over backwards with creative kaizen to show their appreciation. I suspect the same is the case in businesses ‘encouraging’ blogging rather than being honest about how fucking scary it is to their business model…

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:15:44 +0000

and, oh, speaking of revolution today, those days of carefree censorshipless radio are over care of bottom-up idiots voting in top-down idiots. or was it the IT guys doing things sideways?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:12:01 +0000

Having witnessed the same workers, my understanding is, as you say, that the almost complete freedom existed only because it was cocooned within a higher power and had rigid controls (much like giving a child a crayon and a piece of paper … create anything but don’t draw on the walls!)
I get the sense that bottom-up can work with external limitations but not ones that impose a modification of the core intent … think radio and it’s censorship.