Americans Are Not Expendable Cogs

You didn't need me to tell you that he is losing ground on the health care reform, did you? Of course not.

Thing is, he is a student - and professor - of "scientific management." And, as everyone knows, Frederick Winslow Taylor - of whom Stalin was a big fan - famously stoked the fires of "abstract labor" (assembly lines being the best example) with unskilled and, therefore, the cheapest, labor in the early 20th century.

Americans are beginning to feel a serious malaise with a supreme "manager" who sees them - us - as routinizable, infantizable, and expendable "cogs" in our economy. Irksome lot, Americans.

And all I can say is, it's about time.