Pardon our dust...
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wall Street Conspiracy - Blame it on the Kids!
Conspiracies are everywhere!
I knew the Junior Illuminati would make a play for Wall Street!
The New World Order isn't happy.
The Ufologists have found Strangers Among Them lurking about...
Calling all GRoWn-UpS!
Save us from the evil black ops scientist who is using hypnosis to alter our collective memory and perception of history.
Today, we do not remember the 70s Stock Market Crash...
In the 70s, we did not remember the 1930s Great Depression...
In the 1930s, we had forgotten all about the Panic of 1907...
When the book, 1984, leaked out to the public, we took literary notice...
When Wikileak leaked, we brushed it under the rug, that's where...
Today, we are living in a time in history where we expose conspiracies every second of every day on Twitter. We know we have been brainwashed into being "too" accepting of mainstream mediocrity broadcasted to us day and night by the secretly-run government agency, otherwise know as: The Media.
Today, conspiracy has become synonymous with "Wall Street."
Hearing the word instantly makes us cringe, panic, and take to the street
What next?
The you-know-what will hit the fan,
break loose,
and head back to the Junior Illuminati's secret hideout
at Area 51!
Only to discover,
that it was this kid
all along....
Head of the Junior Illuminati
Steal Your Lunch Money
Terrorist Group
That's what we get for asking our kids to fix our computers
Install our DVR systems
Program our cell phones
Upload and download videos from YouTube
Program our GPS's
Design our websites
Sync our Blackberries
and balance our online banking system...
No wonder they can afford all those new iPads!
MORAL LESSON FOR GROWN UPS...
Don't let your kids read your
Quantum Physics Books!!!
Don't let your kids read your
Quantum Physics Books!!!
Small Talk
Small talk is defined as an informal type of discourse that does not cover deeper topics of conversation. Small talk can also be defined a conversation for its own sake, commenting on the perfectly obvious.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884 - 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist who was influential in structural functionalist sociology. His ethnographic fieldwork made a major contribution to the study of Melanesia (an area off the northeastern coast of Australia) and the phenomena relating to reciprocity (how people informally exchange goods and labor), which he later applied to informal linguistics.
The ability to conduct small talk is a social skill, no doubt, a quintessential skill in social networking. It helps define relationships between friends, colleagues, and new acquaintances where it serves to define each other's social position.
In colloquial terms small talk helps us save face, a positive social value a person effectively claims for themself at the water cooler.
"Face" (Chinese in origin) was described by Arthur Henderson Smith (1894) "The term "face" keeps cropping up in our conversation, and it seems such a simple expression that I doubt whether many people give it much thought. Recently, however, we have heard this word on the lips of foreigners too, who seem to be studying it."
In colloquial terms small talk helps us save face, a positive social value a person effectively claims for themself at the water cooler.
"Face" (Chinese in origin) was described by Arthur Henderson Smith (1894) "The term "face" keeps cropping up in our conversation, and it seems such a simple expression that I doubt whether many people give it much thought. Recently, however, we have heard this word on the lips of foreigners too, who seem to be studying it."
Links to Examples of Face Saving:
- Raymond Cohen--Negotiating Across Cultures: Communication Obstacles in International Diplomacy (Symbolic Acts)
- This article illustrates how substantially insignificant concessions can be critical to researching agreements.
- Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton -- Seven Strategies for Treating Perception - or Framing Problems
- Fisher, Ury, and Patton have developed a technique for negotiating agreements called principled negotiations. One aspect of this approach is to deal effectively with people problems and one way to do that, they say, is to allow one's opponent to save face. This and other approaches are discussed in this article.
- Jeffery Rubin -- The Timing of Ripeness and the Ripeness of Timing
- One way to create "ripeness" or "readiness" to negotiate is to reframe the conflict in a way that allows all the parties to save face, Rubin argues.
- Raymond Cohen--Negotiating Across Cultures: Communication Obstacles in International Diplomacy (The 1971 U.S. - Japan Monetary Crisis)
- This essay illustrates the importance of allowing losing parties to "save face."
- William Ury -- Beyond the Hotline
- One way to control crisis situations, Ury says, is to give the opponent a face saving way out of the crisis.
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