{"id":499,"date":"2007-09-11T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/09\/11\/on-realism\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T05:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T05:32:00","slug":"on-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/09\/11\/on-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"on realism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think…<\/p>\n

Check out these <\/a>posters. Perhaps more realistic than most of those ‘success’ posters you see around…<\/p>\n

more: here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a><\/p>\n

There are more, but you will have to while away the time yourself.<\/p>\n

The web-site is a satirical look at the self-assured corporate culture of today’s world. This is from a page where you can design your own poster:<\/p>\n

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For over two decades, the multi-billion dollar motivation industry has unleashed untold suffering upon the workplaces, schools and civil institutions of the world- in the insidious form of the motivational poster. By the millions they have been sold and displayed- these dark instruments of corporate propaganda. While promising to stimulate “Hope”, “Success” and “Teamwork”, instead these tools of coercion and intimidation have inspired only grief, anger and nausea. <\/p>\n

In 1998, one company dared to fight back, as Despair, Inc. introduced Demotivators\u00ae<\/a>, satirical products reverse-engineered from the most powerful motivational posters ever inflicted upon mankind. And now, with the Parody Motivator Generator, we place those very same tools in YOUR less-capable hands. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And here is an article <\/a>from an on-line magazine that explains what it is all about.<\/p>\n

I am sure there is an Ecclesiastes sort of lesson in all of this somewhere.<\/p>\n

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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