What do they want with us?
They’re going to reverse engineer the whole of European philosophy. To find out how it works. What it does. Whether it can be useful.
Well, it can’t be useful – that’s the thing.
At worst, they’ll find it diverting – decorative. It’ll be a kind of recreation for them. A Sunday indulgence. Something to busy yourself with in your spare time. A hobby. For when the serious business of the day is done.
They’ll hijack philosophy – don’t you see? It’s like in AI: why try to replicate animal movement when you could just use animal movement. When you could just hijack it. That’s the smart move.
Philosophy’s unhijackable, that’s the thing.
They’re taking over philosophy from within. They’re going inside philosophy. They’re going to inhabit it. They want to think with the European philosophy brain. To use the European philosophy synapses. They’ll be literally the enemy within. We’ll be Organisational Management’s glove puppets. Meat puppets! They’ll wear philosophy as a skin suit.
Organisational Management isn’t arrogant. Organisational Management thinks it can learn from other subjects. Organisational Management is humble, in that respect. The youngest subject can learn from the oldest subject! Of course it can!
Organisational Management likes to learn new techniques. It likes methods – new methods. Which can be applied to this organisational managerial problem or that. And there are real problems, we must admit that. Real societal challenges. That we all face.
All Organisational Management wants to do is optimise procedures. To make thinking effective. Philosophy will finally become effective.
They want to probe the European philosophy mind. What produced us. What makes us tick. They want to understand the conditions of what it is that we do. And apply them elsewhere.
A new division of labour. Philosophy’s the blue sky stuff, and Organisational Management … well, Organisational Management’s concerned with how it can be applied. How it can make life better.
Organisational Management is a down and dirty subject. A real world subject. And Philosophy doesn’t have to be! Philosophy can do its thing. And so can Organisational Management …
They’re vampiric. They’re going to suck out our philosophy juices.
What juices? I’m fucking dry.
Even our delusions are useful. Even our paranoia. They’ll want to study those. Even our madnesses. Our dreams. It’s all of use to them.
Those bastards!
Creating a happy planet. That’s what Organisational Management’s about. We just want to make the world a happier place. They’re modest! They hold up their hands! They’re not full of grand philosophical ambition.
All there are are problems. Which need solutions. That’s what Organisational Management is about. Finding solutions. Truffling them out. From wherever they might be!
Organisational Management isn’t fussy. It isn’t snobbish. Organisational Management is workaday. It's happy to take what it needs from wherever it finds it.
And Organisational Management’s even curious. Open-eyed. On the look out. Even opportunist. Anything can be grist to the Organisational Management mill …
Work in Progress 