Given some of the conversations I've had with some of y'all about bureaucracy as technology, I thought this might provide you with some dopaminergic confirmation:
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=5675 > What exactly is a blankface? He or she is often a mid-level bureaucrat, but > not every bureaucrat is a blankface, and not every blankface is a bureaucrat. > A blankface is anyone who enjoys wielding the power entrusted in them to make > others miserable by acting like a cog in a broken machine, rather than like a > human being with courage, judgment, and responsibility for their actions. A > blankface meets every appeal to facts, logic, and plain compassion with the > same repetition of rules and regulations and the same blank stare—a blank > stare that, more often than not, conceals a contemptuous smile. Personally, I feel the same way about "deadpan" humor. Comedic Blankfaces may well be hiding a contemptuous smile. *Or* ... or or or, they're more likely hiding a deep and complex inner life that only finds expression when painfully extruded through tiny little pin-hole filters forced upon them by modern society. Blankface humor is the *best* type of humor. And it, at least in my experience, often helps me find humor where none was intended ... a bit like Inspector Clouseau, authentically trying to do a good job, but fscking it up royally. I know I cite Poe's Law a lot. But it's *because* the holographic principle does not apply to biological organisms that apophenia can be a source of creative insight. So, contra Aaronson, Blankfaces are fscking dope. It's the way we *see* and think about the Blankfaces that's the problem. To quote my dad again, "If you are bored, then you are boring." -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
