Re: post-moderating this list

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Dimitri Maziuk <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:19 PM
> Subject: Re: post-moderating this list
> 
> On 12/21/2012 1:05 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
>>  According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morale :
> ...
> 
> Ah, the wiki of the thousand lies strikes again.
> 
> If you google for it, a lot of hits reference the wiki, but
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_beatings_will_continue_until_morale_improves
> 
> has a redirect to the one you quoted. Unless you add 
> "&redirect=no" to the URL -- in which case you get a zero content 
> page.
> 
> So all those references are now null and void and people who quote wikipedia 
> in 
> their writings are Making Sh*t Up(tm).
> 
> Thank Google for caches:
> 
> ... More importantly, the phrase is used sarcastically to indicate the 
> counterproductive nature of such punishment or excessive control over 
> subordinates such as staff in the workplace or children living at home.
> 
> Dima
>

I didn't google for it, I duckduckgo'ed for it :).

Regarding "counterproductive nature" - according to the book I've mentioned 
("The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power", 
http://www.amazon.com/The-Guru-Papers-Masks-Authoritarian/dp/1883319005 ) gurus 
use these techniques quite successfully - exactly because there is a 
substantial amount of people ready to surrender (part of) their freedom to them.


OTOH, you as well as I very well know a Russian idiom: "За одного битого двух 
небитых дают" -> one already beaten up is worth two not yet beaten up.

I think the idiom is quite related to what you are talking about :).

Regards,
  Sergei.