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Re. the Coutts/Natwest-Farage scandal: I thought to myself at the time; Can they not hear themselves? Do they not comprehend how high-handed their behaviour is? Obviously not. This is normal, in fact virtuous behaviour for them. They must be very assured of their moral position and outlook. How is that possible? What kind of person does not doubt himself?

I've never had an office job. I've been up stepladders in offices, but never worked at a desk. It's an unknown world to me. I understand there needs to be thinking, planning and organizing but from talking to your average office worker I get a sneaking suspicion that these activities do not necessarily take up very much of the time. After listening to (scandinavian!) women talking in groups I sometimes wonder: Maybe what they are really producing is 'consensus'? A clammy inclusivity seems to me to be the desired outcome, and it is achieved by arranging nice words in pleasing configurations, to which everyone must agree, reminiscent of Hesse's 'glass bead game' but only on a superficial, semantic level. Any dissidents are ostracised.

Is it through virtue-spiralling group dynamics that the outlandish moral postures of our contemporary corporations are reached, and enforced?

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