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I enjoy your admission toward the end of this page that you are a part of the managerial class and presenting your views in the tradition of a managerial class member. It forced me to admit that I am also firmly a symbol-manipulating member of the managerial class, which made me uncomfortable. (You triggered me darn it, and maybe that forced me to wake up a little more / grow / learn)

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Sep 29, 2022Liked by The Evolved Psyche

Yes, I can identify as a SubStack writer that those arriving mid-conversation are at a disadvantage. But then the disadvantage for them ( my readers only) is to have to slog through the long stew of posts I've already written. Even I am unlikely to do that to remind myself of what I've already written of. But on another note have called this beast we find ourselves in the midst of is the "Revenge of the Middle Managers". These insecure MM types become absolute vampire when allowed to take power. My endeavor is less of an intellectual endeavor than an effort to distill complexity using Occam's Razor.

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I mentioned this before, but I'll repeat it here as a question: Traditionally the symbol manipulation class was the clerical/priestly class. Would you agree that the managerial class is a particular modern manifestation of the general clerical class? If "yes", is there anything we can learn from the history of the latter to help us understand the former?

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