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Charity, Compassion and Conservatism: How "Caring" Lost its Meaning
If being in Healthcare did anything for me, it was to laser focus the awareness and actualisation of what wellness-based "caring", therapeutically, entails.
It isn't what the MSM has fed out.
It isn't graft, or affirmative action, or endless "yes".
It's so much more human. And difficult.
You must *discern*. You must get your hands dirty. Not just throw money, Facebook skins or hashtags at it.
You goddamn cretins. Boiling human suffering down to whether you're white or black, male or female, gay or straight. You goddamn selective sadists.
NO demographic has cornered the market on suffering. It is a human condition. And so many -- too many -- use the oppression pyramid to justify selective kindness.
And too many will use it to bleed those with kind hearts dry.
So what do you do?
You balance. You balance your heart with your brain. But prick your ears up where what's being asked of you is time and investment -- not money.
Because money don't solve everything. But a moment of true compassion and human connection, outside of kyriarchial bullshit, can change everything for someone.
https://youtu.be/6U4pxS6lyOs
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[writing] First Principles: Write Relatably (or, Why Woke Mary Sue Characters Fail)
So, some of you may not know, but I'm an award-winning published author. I'm real small beans when it comes to it, very niche, which is why I don't beller about it. However, I like to think I've at least a basic grasp of solid writing principles.
Rule of thumb: The more fantastic the setting, the harder you have to work to ground the characters in relatable reality.
Tolkien is likely the poster kid for this. Pages and pages of food and crockery descriptions. Barker, too; if "Candyman" fell flat for you, read "The Forbidden" and everything falls into place (spoiler: it's really about the desperation of the urban poor, echoed in other Barker works and Ellison "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs").
Point is, if you're going to introduce a patently supernatural (or "extant", as Stephen King wrote in "Danse Macabre") force, the characters must have an element of pragmatic banality. Their personal relationships, stripped bare, must mirror people YOU know.
Heroes scratch their ass. Villains may be kind to kittens. This keeps the audience conflicted, and therefore interested.
Bad fanfic is considered bad fanfic often because it does not understand this. Pan out, and you can see most of the criticisms of Black Panther and Captain Marvel boil down to the same thing: They're written like Bad fan fiction.
Perfect people in an unrealistic setting. So the viewer's brain goes "uh, Nani?!?".
To loop back to the Netflix Witcher series: I will watch. But the reason Sapkowski's vision worked is that everyone was flawed, all were relatable in some way, and by the trailer it looks like they're going hard tropes instead of the complicated (even quantum science complicated!) world the writer created.
Netflix tried this with Bright. To dumb it down to 2D tropes. It didn't end well. Hopefully the Witcher won't go the same way.
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Cross-Discipline: How r/K Selection Translates to Business (Or, Why Customer Service Is A Dead Pursuit)
Full bias disclosure: I am something of a biological determinist. It makes sense to me, it's largely quantifiable in repeated practice, and while humans are complex animals, we are still animals. I do not ascribe morality, merely result.
This is why I will not pillory (((Them))) for being successful, given (((Their))) careful selective genetic and fitness practices that have, unsurprisingly, resulted in a cline of largely excelling doctors, lawyers, Nobel winners and executives. JQ out of the way ;)
Applying biology to economics isn't a new thing. Sowell did it years ago, and better than I can hope for. What I *can* comment on, as someone who has always worked to pay rent in high customer service jobs, the shift toward quantity over quality -- and I offer this has a direct correlation to culture.
Business: You have X labour budget. You can therefore pay 5 people at 100%, or 10 people at 50%.
If you choose the former (K selection), you are counting on them much more seriously. They also receive more reward -- but if they fuck off of work, you are crippled.
If you choose the latter, you have more warm bodies doing... things... for less incentive. They're not going to be loyal or invested, but it's playing the odds that at least some will show up.
This is the mirror of biology.
Invest in a few, or scatter many.
In terms of business, when I did hiring for an extremely successful branch of a global company, I chose 3/4 K and 1/4 r. The Ks got raises based on performance. The rs largely performed poorly, but were the warm body backup, and were paid fairly by time on the clock.
When you call your mobile service provider, ever wonder why it's so frustrating?
When you walk into a big box hardware store, ever wonder why the employees avoid you or if you corner them are mostly incredibly useless?
It's because these companies are either frank outsourcing to non-NA areas, or demographically hiring populations that are not invested in the ethos.
Note I did not mention race. All one has to do to confirm Huwhite r selection is turn on Jeremy Kyle.
But this is the new business model. Warm bodies>efficiency and competence. So the next time you go to a store, see 8 employees doing nothing and not a single one offers to help you... that's why.
The last really good customer service I got was at a goddamn Hot Topic. They K select. And if that ain't shade to current business practice I don't know what is.
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So, some of you may not know, but I'm an award-winning published author. I'm real small beans when it comes to it, very niche, which is why I don't beller about it. However, I like to think I've at least a basic grasp of solid writing principles.
Rule of thumb: The more fantastic the setting, the harder you have to work to ground the characters in relatable reality.
Tolkien is likely the poster kid for this. Pages and pages of food and crockery descriptions. Barker, too; if "Candyman" fell flat for you, read "The Forbidden" and everything falls into place (spoiler: it's really about the desperation of the urban poor, echoed in other Barker works and Ellison "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs").
Point is, if you're going to introduce a patently supernatural (or "extant", as Stephen King wrote in "Danse Macabre") force, the characters must have an element of pragmatic banality. Their personal relationships, stripped bare, must mirror people YOU know.
Heroes scratch their ass. Villains may be kind to kittens. This keeps the audience conflicted, and therefore interested.
Bad fanfic is considered bad fanfic often because it does not understand this. Pan out, and you can see most of the criticisms of Black Panther and Captain Marvel boil down to the same thing: They're written like Bad fan fiction.
Perfect people in an unrealistic setting. So the viewer's brain goes "uh, Nani?!?".
To loop back to the Netflix Witcher series: I will watch. But the reason Sapkowski's vision worked is that everyone was flawed, all were relatable in some way, and by the trailer it looks like they're going hard tropes instead of the complicated (even quantum science complicated!) world the writer created.
Netflix tried this with Bright. To dumb it down to 2D tropes. It didn't end well. Hopefully the Witcher won't go the same way.
https://youtu.be/cSqi-8kAMmM
Cross-Discipline: How r/K Selection Translates to Business (Or, Why Customer Service Is A Dead Pursuit)
Full bias disclosure: I am something of a biological determinist. It makes sense to me, it's largely quantifiable in repeated practice, and while humans are complex animals, we are still animals. I do not ascribe morality, merely result.
This is why I will not pillory (((Them))) for being successful, given (((Their))) careful selective genetic and fitness practices that have, unsurprisingly, resulted in a cline of largely excelling doctors, lawyers, Nobel winners and executives. JQ out of the way ;)
Applying biology to economics isn't a new thing. Sowell did it years ago, and better than I can hope for. What I *can* comment on, as someone who has always worked to pay rent in high customer service jobs, the shift toward quantity over quality -- and I offer this has a direct correlation to culture.
Business: You have X labour budget. You can therefore pay 5 people at 100%, or 10 people at 50%.
If you choose the former (K selection), you are counting on them much more seriously. They also receive more reward -- but if they fuck off of work, you are crippled.
If you choose the latter, you have more warm bodies doing... things... for less incentive. They're not going to be loyal or invested, but it's playing the odds that at least some will show up.
This is the mirror of biology.
Invest in a few, or scatter many.
In terms of business, when I did hiring for an extremely successful branch of a global company, I chose 3/4 K and 1/4 r. The Ks got raises based on performance. The rs largely performed poorly, but were the warm body backup, and were paid fairly by time on the clock.
When you call your mobile service provider, ever wonder why it's so frustrating?
When you walk into a big box hardware store, ever wonder why the employees avoid you or if you corner them are mostly incredibly useless?
It's because these companies are either frank outsourcing to non-NA areas, or demographically hiring populations that are not invested in the ethos.
Note I did not mention race. All one has to do to confirm Huwhite r selection is turn on Jeremy Kyle.
But this is the new business model. Warm bodies>efficiency and competence. So the next time you go to a store, see 8 employees doing nothing and not a single one offers to help you... that's why.
The last really good customer service I got was at a goddamn Hot Topic. They K select. And if that ain't shade to current business practice I don't know what is.
https://youtu.be/s5f8hjzxmkA
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