As Above, So Below

[kalibex]

The STS energy funneling hierarchy, perfectly illustrated:

What is Mara’s job like? Her sales figures are monitored…by the microsecond. By hidden cameras and mics. They listen to her every word; they capture her every movement; that track and stalk her as if she were an animal; or a prisoner; or both. She’s jacked into a headset that literally barks algorithmic, programmed “orders” at her, parroting her own “performance” back to her, telling her how she compares with quotas calculated…down to the second…for all the hundreds of items in the store…which recites “influence and manipulation techniques” to her…to use on unsuspecting customers…that sound suspiciously like psychological warfare. It’s as if the NSA was following you around……and it was stuck in your head…telling you what an inadequate failure you were…psychologically waterboarding you…all day long…every day for the rest of your life.

_https://medium.com/bad-words/the-asshole-factory-71ff808d887c_

 

[luke wilson]

I agree with it, within a certain context, not the whole picture

Have you noticed, lately, that people seem to be more, well, assholish…than before? That everywhere you go, people seem to be meaner, nastier, dumber, angrier, more brutish?

Some people would agree with this, but not everyone, not the majoority.... for some, meaner, nastier, dumber, angrier, more brutish always existed.. from time immemorial... it's just that the reality is becoming more apparent to others who didn't experience it before. For one, this seems to be an american/western problem and even within those societies this seems to be a middle/upper class problem... as a percentage of the population, this is tiny.

 

[Buddy]

The STS energy funneling hierarchy, perfectly illustrated:

What is Mara’s job like? Her sales figures are monitored…by the microsecond. By hidden cameras and mics. They listen to her every word; they capture her every movement; that track and stalk her as if she were an animal; or a prisoner; or both. She’s jacked into a headset that literally barks algorithmic, programmed “orders” at her, parroting her own “performance” back to her, telling her how she compares with quotas calculated…down to the second…for all the hundreds of items in the store…which recites “influence and manipulation techniques” to her…to use on unsuspecting customers…that sound suspiciously like psychological warfare. It’s as if the NSA was following you around……and it was stuck in your head…telling you what an inadequate failure you were…psychologically waterboarding you…all day long…every day for the rest of your life.

_https://medium.com/bad-words/the-asshole-factory-71ff808d887c_

What the author is talking about or the emotion the author is expressing?