Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no little irony in the fact that one of Taylor's chief admirers was Lenin. In a notable speech in June 1919, Lenin urged "the study and teaching of the Taylor system and its systematic trial and adaptation." The logic of efficiency knows no social boundaries...
Chronological time rules the work economy, its very rhythms and motions. The prophet of modern work was Frederick W. Taylor, and the stop watch was his rod. If any social upheaval can ever be attributed to one man, the logic of efficiency as a mode of life is due to Taylor. With "scientific management," as formulated by Taylor in 1895, we pass far beyond the old, rough computations of the division of labor and more into the division of time itself...
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION depicts a world safely ruled by reason. a world where knowledge and order prevail over the alien and the unknowable. The most trivial-seeming remarks in this catalogue suggest the existence of a firm underlying logic. A note appended to a course in art history--"Enrollment: Limited to 390"--must be either unthinkably arbitrary, or the visible part of a much larger, perfectly rational order...
...sheer madness. It is Sequenza III for female voice by Luciano Berio, one of the three or four most successful living composers. The words are incomprehensible, as the music also, seems to be, but as a dramatic stream of consciousness, this piece has the same kind of compelling emotional logic as Joyce's Ulysses...
...shifted a Dit so that now the CIA is seen as only a wing of the Rockefeller family, which in turn controls the world. The Rockfellers relay on secret police to enforce on the world what the NCLC calls "slave labor" policies. There's a sort of perverse paradoxical logic to the NCLC's theories--for instance, while the Rockfellers control the world already, they are constantly trying to gain control of it. Also, anyone who criticizes the NCLC--me, for instance--is a CIA agent. It doesn't even need to be proved, since no one would criticize...