Well Finland got a new government, a coalition called the six pack, formed from the National Coalition, Social Democrats, Left Wing Alliance, The Green Party, The God damn Swedish Party and Christian Democrats. We have 19 new ministers to run the monkey farm known as the Finnish Government and here is where the weirdness begins.
Now we have 3 foreign ministers, it won't get confusing at all when the you add the president into the mix. You gotta love the tailor-made ministries, like the EU ministry specially crafted for Alex Stubb, as it won't make it at all confusing when we send the president, the foreign minister, the prime minister and Stubb into an EU summit. Stubb is very good at what he does, he is actually the first guy I ever voted for, but he isn't that awesome that we need to come up with a ministry just for him.
The foreign aid ministry is another political product of some major political clusterfuck. Granted foreign aid is important and it helps save lives, but is it that important that it needs a ministry of its own? This again is some political candy, this time to the Green Party, but I suspect that this is going to be the place where the anti-immigrant wing of the True Finns are going to went their anti-immigration frustrations. Then again the Green Party is a so called party with "values", among them NO NUCLEAR POWER, but that didn't stop them being a part of the most pro-nuclear power government in Europe, so who knows what the hell they will do with this position.
One ministry that thankfully got abolished was the immigrant ministry, largely because all the hate that the previous owner of the title got, no one was stupid enough to accept the post. Another traditionally painful ministry is the minister of agriculture, when the Center Party(Formerly the Farmer's Party)is in the opposition.
perjantai 17. kesäkuuta 2011
sunnuntai 12. kesäkuuta 2011
First Impressions, smoke and mirrors, job interviews and sociopaths
I hate the concept of First Impressions and the importance people give to them. Fuck. That. Shit. Judging someone by the first impression is like judging Christmas presents by the fucking wrapping paper they are wrapped in. How on earth does it make any bloody sense that you could draw any conclusions on something as complex as another person during the first five seconds?
Actually there was a time when it did. Between the time when humans climbed down from the trees and said "so long suckers" to the chimps and the time before humans climbed near to the top of the food chain, there was a time when those instant first impressions were the matter of life and death. Back then you had about 5 seconds to decide whether the thing you met was going to eat you, could you eat it or mate with it. But since then we have evolved to a status where the only animal challenging our position at the top of the food chain are mosquitoes and they only get away with it because exterminating them to a point of extinction would be too much of a bother, this reaction has become largely useless and even dangerous when applied to social situations.
First impressions is the ultimate form of the messed up smoke and mirror games we play these days. First impressions are as accurate of a picture of who we are as racial/national stereotypes, in fact they are a form of stereotyping. Stereotypes were born because we don't have the time or willingness to really look into the wonders of the world, but rather we want everything to fit the nifty little boxes in our heads that we use in the futile attempt to organize the world. Everything that doesn't fit into those boxes ends up in the box labeled "scary, complicated shit that doesn't fit anywhere else that is better left ignored".
And that isn't even the scary part, the scary part is that since the first impressions are nowhere near who and what we really are, they can be used manipulate and deceive. The best example of this is the Job Interview Game, its a game where the interviewer tries to determine whether or not the applicant fits into the Ideal Applicant Box and the applicant does everything in their power to build wall of smoke and mirrors by telling a carefully thought out web of selected truths, half truths and outright lies to create the illusion that they fit into the box, which in itself is an illusion. If the job ad says that they are looking for an independent minded people person, what kind of an idiot says on their application that they are an acerbic assholes who don't get along with anyone and need constant supervision. Its not like you can really tell who and what the person you are interviewing is in the 30-45 minutes you spend with them, you only get what they appear to be, which may or may not be a part who they really are.
This means that in order to survive in this world of ours, it no longer matters who and what you really are, as no one has the time or interest to get into anything that deep, complex or profound. What matters is how well you are able to create the illusions that fit into other people's boxes of how the world operates. This has lead evolution to create a group of people who are masters at this, sociopaths. These people are capable of deceiving anyone and everyone. They are master social chameleons that have the uncanny talent of getting into other people's heads and take a look at what kind of stereotype boxes the people have and then figuring out how to exploit this to the fullest. Sociopaths, the next step in Human evolution? Hopefully not, but its the logical conclusion looking at the world today.
The only way to avert this, is to say FUCK YOU to stereotypes and their bastard children the first impressions, stop playing those retarded smoke and mirror games, be content in being just who you are with all the flaws and gifts that you have and wonder at the true fantastically odd and scary nature of the world.
Actually there was a time when it did. Between the time when humans climbed down from the trees and said "so long suckers" to the chimps and the time before humans climbed near to the top of the food chain, there was a time when those instant first impressions were the matter of life and death. Back then you had about 5 seconds to decide whether the thing you met was going to eat you, could you eat it or mate with it. But since then we have evolved to a status where the only animal challenging our position at the top of the food chain are mosquitoes and they only get away with it because exterminating them to a point of extinction would be too much of a bother, this reaction has become largely useless and even dangerous when applied to social situations.
First impressions is the ultimate form of the messed up smoke and mirror games we play these days. First impressions are as accurate of a picture of who we are as racial/national stereotypes, in fact they are a form of stereotyping. Stereotypes were born because we don't have the time or willingness to really look into the wonders of the world, but rather we want everything to fit the nifty little boxes in our heads that we use in the futile attempt to organize the world. Everything that doesn't fit into those boxes ends up in the box labeled "scary, complicated shit that doesn't fit anywhere else that is better left ignored".
And that isn't even the scary part, the scary part is that since the first impressions are nowhere near who and what we really are, they can be used manipulate and deceive. The best example of this is the Job Interview Game, its a game where the interviewer tries to determine whether or not the applicant fits into the Ideal Applicant Box and the applicant does everything in their power to build wall of smoke and mirrors by telling a carefully thought out web of selected truths, half truths and outright lies to create the illusion that they fit into the box, which in itself is an illusion. If the job ad says that they are looking for an independent minded people person, what kind of an idiot says on their application that they are an acerbic assholes who don't get along with anyone and need constant supervision. Its not like you can really tell who and what the person you are interviewing is in the 30-45 minutes you spend with them, you only get what they appear to be, which may or may not be a part who they really are.
This means that in order to survive in this world of ours, it no longer matters who and what you really are, as no one has the time or interest to get into anything that deep, complex or profound. What matters is how well you are able to create the illusions that fit into other people's boxes of how the world operates. This has lead evolution to create a group of people who are masters at this, sociopaths. These people are capable of deceiving anyone and everyone. They are master social chameleons that have the uncanny talent of getting into other people's heads and take a look at what kind of stereotype boxes the people have and then figuring out how to exploit this to the fullest. Sociopaths, the next step in Human evolution? Hopefully not, but its the logical conclusion looking at the world today.
The only way to avert this, is to say FUCK YOU to stereotypes and their bastard children the first impressions, stop playing those retarded smoke and mirror games, be content in being just who you are with all the flaws and gifts that you have and wonder at the true fantastically odd and scary nature of the world.
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