It's a hostile takeover of philosophy, and that’s that.
Not so hostile.
You’ll make us teach Organisational Management ethics, or something.
Organisational Management ethics? What would be the point of that?
Are you actually going to make us teach your students?
I don’t know. Talk to my husband.
And will philosophy students have to learn Organisational Management?
No idea. Anyway, it’s not about teaching anymore, is it? Unless it’s international student teaching – that’s where the real money is.
So what is it about? Research money. Funding bids. You can make millions.
Not in philosophy, you can’t.
Which is why you’re lucky to be with us. There’s oodles of money for Organisational Managers …
Looking out over the campus.
What’s it for?
You tell me.
It’s capital of the Organisational Management empire of the northeast. It’s a node in the global Organisational Management empire. The newest node, the brightest node …
I don’t know about that. You should see the campus in Shanghai …
What’s the Northeast done to deserve this? Who decided that there should be some great Organisational Managerial-ing of the northeast?
Because it’s all decline up here. Just vape shops and Turkish barbers. Which means they’ve been given carte blanche.
They? You, you mean.
Us, then. Organisational Management. We’re here to improve things.
They’ve just turned the northeast into some Organisational Management testbed.
This is the real city – the Organisational Management city. There is no more Newcastle. The history of Newcastle is over.
How are you going to resist us? Spiritually? Internally? Will you be like Solzhenitsyn?
Don’t you ever feel shame? For, like, promoting all this?
This isn’t exactly the Gulag Archipelago.
Sure, because they’re smarter than that now. They’ve learned better ways to, like, totally control us.
Such a freedom fighter. Who are you going to be, Bonhoffer?
You think you’re unmanageable. But everyone’s manageable. Once you find the levers.
Do you seriously think you’re a challenge for Organisational Management? Don’t you think we’ll just swallow you up, for all your so-called unmanageability?
The secret is that it won’t actually be that bad to be managed. It’s all very soft now.
That’s the problem: it’s too soft.
You’ll be gently nudged. Kindly shown the way …
Sure, to euthanasia.
It’s worse because they’re not actually strangling people. Because it all seems peaceful. It’s been feminized. It’s all done for safety and not offending anyone and all that. Big mother’s in charge, not big brother. Totalitarianism is very mild these days. It’s very kind.
Human culture will not exist anymore, once the social scoring starts.
AI will be the zookeeper – isn’t that obvious. AI will determine what to eat and who is allowed to live where and when, depending on behaviour, on social score. Human behaviour has to be entirely predictable and calculable, right?
We’re just dangerous variables to AI … dissidents. Sand in the gears.
Don’t overestimate yourselves.
Work in Progress 