How to create a movement or implement a project correctly

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

For many years I have been fond of observing different movements and groups that wanted to create something useful for society, but in almost 100% of cases they did not succeed. I also participated in some of these groups, which also made it possible to observe the situation from the inside. Some teams managed to do, in their own words, "something similar", but in reality it was not even close to the original idea. For example, a scientific project is planned, which was supposed to turn the ideas of people in a certain narrow field of computer science, and as a result, a good such term paper of ONE second-year student is obtained by a pure “five”, but no more. Now I am watching the beginning of the construction of a new village and I see exactly the scheme according to which all unsuccessful projects are moving (addition: six months have passed since the writing of these lines in the draft, and all my predictions about the nature of this work, except two, have completely come true; one I simply cannot check the prediction yet, and the date of the second has not come yet). In a humorous way, I decided to sketch out a fairly general plan of work on any project, thanks to this plan, the project is guaranteed to fail. I will add that this scheme is taken from reality, it summarizes, probably, all my many years of experience in observing failures in complex undertakings.

So, let's say that you are some kind of ideologist who decided to take on changing the world, and it is not so important here whether you mean global changes or some local improvements in certain areas. The first thing to do is to clearly and unequivocally separate yourself from the “crowd of passive inhabitants”, or simply declare a number of qualities that distinguish you from “others”. You must show that you are special in some sense: either you are generally "enlightened", or you were simply given a mission from above to take on this particular work - then you need to come up with a story in which you mystically ended up in the right place in the right place time and you have some necessary thoughts, or maybe someone dictated them (for example, “I went to the forest for firewood, and there was a girl in the meadow who communicated with squirrels and who subsequently changed my life”) … If the project involves spiritual development, then you must declare spirituality, if this is a scientific project, then you must be either a recognized scientist or an unrecognized genius from the world of pseudoscience, the knowledge of which humanity has yet to realize in a couple of hundred years. If we are talking about esotericism, then you must have esoteric abilities or any such "knowledge". MOST IMPORTANT: it is not at all necessary to have all this, it is important to be able to declare it eloquently!

Many scientific or pseudo-scientific projects differ from others in that they do not have such a clearly expressed role of the main ideologist or leader. That is, there are just interested guys sitting there, usually very young, who enthusiastically take up work without any strategy. In very rare cases, they manage to do something like Microsoft, Apple, Google, FB or VK, and then the feature mentioned in the previous paragraph is already supported by a real practice of success. However, upon a detailed examination of the situation, one can trace very interesting kinship or simply close ties of such guys with representatives of the elite. This suggests that the history of some of the giants was externally controlled from the very beginning. If you belong to this category of successful people working for the interests of the "masters of the world", you do not need to follow the plan suggested here, just do, do, do your job - and everything will (not) work out by itself. The main thing - do not forget, on orders from above, to introduce into your systems or projects the functions of total control, snitching, censorship, tools to support the historical slavery and pressure on unwanted users. Put your goals above the means of achieving them and stand on a position like: “if I don’t do this, then another leader will come and make it even worse, and at least I’m not doing as badly as they demand of me.” Do not try to study sociology, philosophy, history of science, political science, and other sciences related to fairly general management issues. Your personal development should remain at the level of those guys who started their great projects in Dad's garage. Sometimes this is a very high level, but you just don't need to raise it, otherwise you will not be controlled by those for whom you work, and therefore you will be quickly overthrown down.

So, we figured out completely with the geniuses from dad's garage, so only those who do not belong to them read further.

Gather a team of like-minded people. Here you can act in different ways, but the result will be identical. You can come up with rules or put forward requirements for who you want to see on your team. The rules should be primitive enough and at the same time vague, so that if something happens you can refuse a suitable, but disagreeable candidate, referring to the fact that he did not understand the requirements correctly. In this case, you simply have to follow the scheme "all animals are equal, but some are smoother", in other words, you yourself do not have to fall under these rules or requirements. You can break them by violently resisting those who caught you in this. For example, you can prevent people who judge others for mistakes and at the same time call their position "objective personality assessment", while you yourself can perform such an "objective personality assessment" in relation to candidates. You demand from them to add “in my subjective opinion” at the end of each statement, and you yourself constantly assert that your opinion is objective, because it is based on a deep experience of understanding life processes. You may not allow them to judge yourself, but you yourself can judge by the full program.

You don't have to come up with rules right away, but just scatter announcements about your idea everywhere and invite “everyone who wants to” to change the world together with you. The difference with the first option is that the first few days in your team there will be many, many little "hamsters" who will basically only eat - take up your time by asking stupid questions or giving "valuable" advice and recommendations - and crap - do the wrong job, but do all sorts of bullshit under the banner of your organization. The latter is called well-meaning idiocy, although this phenomenon has a much wider spectrum of its manifestation in society, for example, "StopHam" or "Earth Hour", and thousands of them … When the "hamsters" disappear, you will have only "naive henchmen". That is, in fact, the result will be the same, and therefore, to prevent a repeated situation with a bunch of hamsters, you still have to come up with some rules. And now - you have come to the same thing. Remember that you can break the rules because you are "more equal than others."

Whether or not to do test tasks for joining a team is not important, the result will be identical, it is easy to understand by analogy with the presence or absence of rules.

Declare your specific goals and objectives immediately or later - it doesn't matter, the result will be identical.

It also does not matter when and how you declare yourself a project leader, an enlightened guru, a deputy of God on Earth, or just a person who has the last word - the result will be identical.

So, a certain team has gathered. Now you see the smartest and stupidest people in the team and have mentally assigned roles to them. It is imperative to meet, get acquainted (if required) and decide on plans for the future. Conduct a vote: who, where and when it is convenient to come. Show that something can depend on the opinions of people in the team, they are captivated by this and it seems to them that they are already making some important decisions. Among the choices in the voting there should be only those that are convenient for you personally, so that in any case you do not get too steamy with the trip.

After a two-three-month discussion of a future meeting and options for holding it (from a purely formal, uninteresting side), as well as an exchange of expectations and arousing enthusiasm, it will finally take place, and usually a third of those who have announced will be present at it for these 2 -3 months, more than half have simply left the project, while others somehow ended up being busy with something else. In some rare cases, indeed, everyone who was going to come (when there are only half a dozen people in the project), but this does not play a special role, because the consequences of the meeting will still be identical.

The meeting will be useless. All useful questions could be discussed via the Internet, but when a large number of people meet in person, accompanying psychological effects inevitably arise. People start chatting with each other about all sorts of garbage, breaking up into small groups of interests. Basically, they share with each other their successes and achievements, boast of their experience and try to show their place in the project, they say that he is not some kind of "horse-radish", but an experienced specialist, without whom the project "will not work." Particularly arrogant begin to criticize other "successful" project participants behind their backs in their circles, stubbornly hinting that they themselves know very well what should be done, but for a number of important reasons they do not do and do not even say about it openly.

The chatter will be accompanied by some scheduled presentations that will once again reveal what everyone already knows:

• how good and great it will be to reap the fruits of your efforts;
• how special we are, that only we can solve this problem here and now, and no one except us can. Either we or nobody;
• we will show the world what it has not seen before;
• we need (not) a lot of dough, and therefore those two busily sitting "money bags" in the front row are our investors and we must dance in front of them properly, putting everything in the best light. The “bags” must constantly feel that they are the most important participants in the project, that they are the ones who change the world and make the important decisions that we make.

The last point is optional, but it is often present in large projects. These projects are ALREADY doomed to obey the will of investors, and therefore will never develop in accordance with the original concept (if there was one at all). Bags of shit (sorry, with the dough) came to make a profit, or its equivalent of an intangible nature, and therefore the project itself is of little interest to them.

After the meeting, all participants should enthusiastically take on their roles and diligently portray the appearance of productive work. You need to do this EXACTLY for three days! No more and no less. Then you need to stop and return to your unsettled everyday life, at war with its physical manifestations. "There is no time and energy" - this should be a classic excuse behind which the real position is hidden: "I will wait until the rest of the team does everything, and then I will grease myself somewhere, maybe I will hold a shovel or, purely symbolically, I will rake on the already harvested grass." … Almost 100% of the participants are required to take this position. Some are allowed to have a different opinion, say: “The project management is somehow illiterate, does not understand anything about management. I won't do anything until they figure out their mistakes and start fixing them. " The defaults should contain exactly the same position: "I will wait until everything is done." The rest of almost one percent of the participants must work with the devotion of fanatics, but on what?

Over anything. After spending a week, or maybe a month, over the development of some ideas, the fanatics of the project suddenly discover that their work intersects, as a result of which competition arises. Often, a cunning leader deliberately pushes different people against each other, giving them the same job, but this is not important, because the result is still the same: fanatics begin to take the position: "either we do as I thought, or I leave."

Well, some of the fanatics left: some went to another project, and some were completely disappointed in the idea, began to live "like everyone else." Some decided to make their own project, taking on the role of ideological leader. They begin to act according to the scheme described here, but from the very beginning.

The project is worth it, because no one is doing anything, everyone is waiting for the result, and fanatics are waiting for commands from the management, doing anything but what is needed. The leadership of the team does not give, because they do not know what to do, they need to sew an ideological footcloth to justify the work of the movement. To absolve himself of responsibility for illiterate management, the project manager announces that from now on the movement must operate on the principles of awareness and self-management. In other words, people must take the initiative and do it themselves. What to do? Yes, do not care, just do it, and then it will be seen whether it is correct or not.

If no one does anything, different members of the team begin to accuse that they are not doing anything, and they answer that they are actually doing a lot, their work is simply not visible yet. There is another answer: we do it, but just slowly, not in a hurry, so that everything will turn out well at once. The project manager laments this circumstance, but continues to appeal to the awareness of the members of the movement. Nothing works, but there is still a way out: you need to organize a second meeting at which the Charter of the movement or the Manifesto will be presented, and when everyone acts according to the Charter and the Manifesto, then everything will be fine and correct - the work will go on.

Before the Charter or Manifesto is drafted and presented, a few fanatics create a series of drafts and submit them to the public. Razgildy who are waiting for everything ready, lazily flipping through the proposed pages and, seeing an opportunity to show that they are doing something, suggest "very, very important" edits or simply express criticism. Fanatics try to satisfy the needs of consumers of their text and tweak something, rewrite something completely and in the end receive the Manifesto of the Losers' Club.

Now, at the next meeting, this manifesto is presented as an important basis for the movement's work. The participants rejoice at the next achievement of the project and then for three whole days vigorously discuss the following important things:

• how good it will be when everything is ready;
• no one except them can do anything like that, only they can change the world;
• it will be large and grandiose;
• but where to get the money?

"There is no money, but you stick here," says the main ideologist, "learn to earn money, work hard, come up with something, you are conscious people." And conscious people return home waiting for someone to figure out how to make money.

Further, the third, fourth, tenth, twentieth meeting of the project participants is expected, at which all the same theses, the rules for admitting new participants are announced, membership fees are organized, which go to all sorts of garbage like advertising their club of losers and renting meeting rooms organized for the sake of discussing everything the same theses, collection of contributions that go away … well, you get the idea.

The next step is that a certain subculture is needed, expressed in a formal set of rituals and identification signs, with which people from the movement can distinguish themselves from the "rest". Rules are being developed, among which there will necessarily be at least one of the following, but often several:

• do not eat meat (and fish);
• do not drink or smoke;
• do not use foul language;
• do not copulate unnecessarily (typical for religious sects, ordinary people in movements are afraid of losing this form of pleasure);
• contribute tithes to the development of the movement (10% of income);
• strive for awareness and follow general purposefulness;
• live in a natural way;
• wear a particular form of clothing or insignia;
• think as often as possible about what is happening around;
• think before you say;
• do not take loans with positive interest;
• regularly organize subbotniks;
• serve a common cause (project / movement) and put it above personal affairs;
• leave evidence of your presence in different places with special marks (inscriptions, stickers on walls, poles, benches, asphalt, etc.);
• not to get carried away with only one sexual partner, but to pay attention to others (typical for movements based on polyamory).

In addition to explicit rules, such as those indicated above, part of the subculture develops spontaneously under the influence of natural processes in the minds of its participants. So, for example, it can be an aggressive style of communication with those who are not supporters of the movement and dared to express their criticism (regardless of its fairness or injustice). The form of insulting or accusing “dissidents” usually looks the same from different participants who themselves do not notice it. The way of thinking in relation to any problem existing in the world becomes the same, because the very ideology of the movement dictates the way of such an attitude. For example, "the reptilians are to blame for everything" or "all this was adjusted by the global predictor." By the way, the price list for the services of the global predictor is presented below. You can also see a pronounced attempt to defend “ours” and attack “strangers” even in the case when the “friend” is clearly going too far and makes absolutely childish logical mistakes in his argumentation. However, as soon as “friend” becomes “alien” for one reason or another (usually this is an epiphany and a sober look at all this chaos), then all his logical mistakes HERE become the object of attack by former “friends”. Also, there may be a form of humor of its own, some traditions, as well as signs of attention to each other recognizable only by members of society, etc.

So, the subculture has developed, zombie keeps a certain core of participants close to each other. From that moment on, the chatter of an educational nature on the Internet on forums and various pavilions, as well as disputes with other movements and self-promotion become the main form of existence and occupies the "core" of the participants completely. The rest of the participants come, write a few words on the forum, and leave. Nobody even pays attention to them. This is a riffraff, periphery, their task is only to portray the crowd.

All the activity of the movement, which has gathered around a certain project, is now focused exclusively on supporting itself. The project goes aside, it only plays the role of a signboard, an ideological footcloth, which needs to be covered up to justify its existence. The movement now exists not for the sake of a project, but for the sake of itself and the subculture that it generates. This is how the egregor of movement is created, the only purpose of its existence is existence, and this egregor feeds on the energy of its participants.

Further, the life of the movement is full of a wide variety of plots. Let's list the most interesting of them.

1 Meetings, chats, discussion of the current moment and deciding who will do what next.

2 Discovery of the fact that "something is going wrong", and you need to do everything somehow differently.

3 Collecting money to solve the problem found in paragraph 2.

4 Waste of money on all sorts of nonsense like advertising the movement and creating materials designed to explain to “other people” why they are idiots if they have not yet entered “our only right movement”. Then the money ends and usually the transition to point 2 follows.

5 The main ideologue (s) organize (are) an educational lecture on a certain topic, and the rest of the henchmen listen to it via the Internet, eating cookies with tea. Having consumed cognitive content and feeling their involvement in something important and high, the minions express their important opinion on the lecture, supplement it, and in any other way show in every way that they have understood something. Although in reality they just ate, in both senses. Often there is a mood to tell everyone a new revealed truth, and therefore we move on to the next point.

6 Battles with heretics who are not participating in the movement, when the Caudle of their minions attacks the Caudle of the minions of another movement, or vice versa. Srach on forums, chats or comments takes the attention of participants from both sides for a long time.

7 Cooperation with another Caudla, when it seems to everyone that now, by combining efforts, more can be achieved, it is only necessary to eliminate some differences in the ideological footcloths. But this cannot be done and everyone goes to step 6.

8 Dreams of how everything will be fine when the ideological footcloth is realized in reality. Go to point 1. Along the way, we carry out points 9-11.

9 Talking about how we differ from the rest.

10 Discussion of all those problems in which none of the participants in the movement even approximately understands. (For example, what should the authorities do to make things better and why they are doing everything wrong now).

11 Reading various humorous articles like this, which criticize various movements, but at the same time, the participants in no way admit the thought that this was written about them, they think that it was written about everyone except them. And their movement on any points does not fall under the readable description.

However, sooner or later another “hamster” wakes up from hibernation, looks around this orgy of masturbators, who are locked in the same room with a porn film, and with a fucking glance at all this disgrace, runs to the door, putting on his pants, and starts pounding at it with a cry: “Let me, b..b, from here, masturbators x..y!.

Nevertheless, the awakening process is not at all as simple as described in the previous paragraph, because the egregor of movement firmly holds its donors near it. How the exit from the sect actually occurs, I will describe later in a separate article: "How to leave the sect?"

PS … For those who do not understand the meaning of the use of profanity in some of my articles. Perhaps this video will help you understand me better. Watch WITHOUT children and with a joyful nostalgic, but thoughtful and full of desire to do good mood. If you find it difficult to grasp such humor, then it will be difficult for you to understand me in general the way I would like it to be. Hmm … or did you think I was so serious in life?