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Failure to Mobile

Technology develops, and people adapt - but attitudes, not so much. (Or subtlety. Or irony...)

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Failure to Interviewee

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Illusion of Control

Usually when people speak of the illusion of control it's technically more in the context of Kung Fu Panda, but this is a consistent way to get anyone under your thumb. Promise them a glimpse of potential benefit or expectation, and you'll usually be able to get them to do anything without actually holding up your end of the bargain.

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it." - 1984, George Orwell

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Failure to Wincon

Life is like a game - the worst part is realising that you're not the player, but the pawn.

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What Doesn’t Kill You

Let's just get this out of the way - justifying your logistical screw-ups, anti-social behaviour, or consequences on somebody else because of something you hold the responsibility for (and failed to meet its requirements) with a blithely overused "shit happens" quote is a shitty dick move. If your plan for progress is to endlessly wear everyone down like stones against a grinder and hope that you find enough diamonds from the mountain of basket cases you're going to end up producing, don't be too surprised when the other basket cases supersede you by sheer force of number.

(There's also the fact that the AIDS virus doesn't kill you, but weakens you to the point where even weak pathogens can pose life-threatening danger, thereby creating a counterexample to "what doesn't kill you" which is bandied about like universal truth. But honestly, the vengeance prospect is a lot more satisfying.)

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Failure to Construct

The immediately recent political climate aside, argumentation and rationale have become a lost cause in postmodern social interaction. Nobody wants to sit through a lecture or jump through hoops to achieve greater understanding when you can toss a humorously captioned image and get more attention, likes, and shares that way.

After all, a picture says a thousand words... and each one of those thousand words say "NERD!".

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You Only Live Once

I don't know when or how the fact that your existence is a single instance of functioning phenomenon has devolved into a ridiculously reckless method of living. If anything, being willing to treat your life as disposable merely encourages other vested interests to also treat you as such. Not to say they aren't already doing that.

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Failure to Walk

"Footprints in the Sand" is a commonly used religious motivational parable that gets my goat due to several reasons. It's overly utilised, inherently trivialises personal tributlations, and ignores other theological issues just to make a point. It's a cheap way to explain away or ignore human error, poor happenstance and underlying problems, using the premise that an almighty, all-loving being noticed, thereby invalidating any sort of negative feedback or critical thinking.

That also bring us to the other issue with this train of thought - namely, the fact that the same inclusive entity also brought along the people who possibly contributed to one's present situation in the first place. If the "footprints in the sand" parable is intended to vindicate the person it's directed at, the underlying theological principles effectively apply this to everyone around that person, including the people antagonising said individual. Boiled down to its core, the story isn't much different from other similar fables that carry a subtly worded, veiled "suggestion" for the recipient to have an attitude change and/or assume all responsibility... or else.

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