Propaganda creates an illusion that people believe in about their country and how the world works. They then make decisions in their lives and argue with one another based on this illusion.
"According to these documents, creating content that points out the insanity of our current financial system is also now “misinformation,” and you could be labelled as a domestic terrorist." Same as buying gas made from oil produced by terrorist supporting nations??
Joe, I have been following you for years starting with Collective Evolution and no censorship has kept me from reading your writings. I don't quite understand how censorship made your following drop so much because you are still there online. You have consistently been one of the top voices for common sense and a strong moral stand through this madness when others have gone over the edge with drama. There have been times when YOUR voice has given me any hope of sanity I could find. I am very old now and never dreamed life would be like this - I thought humanity would mature - especially after the predicted changes of 2012. I try to have a longer view of this chaos being a catalyst for awakening because I can't deal with life otherwise. I see you suffer in this and I am so sorry. Try not to be discouraged because you are truly one of the good guys and I am deeply grateful.
Mar 15, 2023·edited Mar 15, 2023Liked by Joe Martino
I served for a time as a Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner...and later "Performance Excellence Program" - examiners are volunteers who have been trained to apply a criteria for performance excellence while examining companies who apply for the award.
At that time I had led companies of my own for 30 years and had certain practices that were informed by my examination of excellent companies and what they do.
I learned that excellent companies share the truth...they take control of the narrative by making sure everyone has the facts...the truth...as much as was possible. And if they got it wrong, then they immediately corrected it.
So this must have been the practice that was highjacked and became a "narrative" - something concocted to sound like the truth but was not the truth and was what the powers thought they could sell that would serve their purpose.
Telling your employees the facts and the truth rather than a narrative is still a best practice for the truly excellent high-performing companies.
ESG of course existed and still does in these excellence companies but it was applied as a value system that a hammer to beat up the board and threaten financial exclusion. Examiners like myself understood that companies with strong value systems could achieve better results because employees were loyal and worked hard for companies that stood for something. Employees know the difference as does our population at large.
This is a great anecdote to share, and something that I think applies deeply to society at large. I imagine the companies with clear value systems and truth telling habits tend to not end up in situations where their employees see through the nonsense of leadership, maintaining connection and trust.
Whereas companies who are always lying or deceiving will lose the trust of the employees who will then perform worse and eventually leave. Now imagine this at a governmental and society level.. what we have today for sure.
Thanks again for sharing your anecdote and experience!
One question that pops up: do you think there is a limit in terms of the amount of people that can be on the same page with values, truth etc?
What I mean by that is, a company might be 1000 people or 20,000.. a country could be 30 million. Does it become harder to be 'excellent' the larger the population gets?
WE EXAMINED A COMPANY (A FARM THAT GREW TREES AND PLANTS FOR RETAIL NURSERIES) THEY EMPLOYEES THOUSANDS OF MIGRANT WORKERS WHO CAME BACK EVERY YEAR AFTER 3 MONTHS IN MEXICO. THEY TRAINED THESE EMPLOYEES ANNUALLY AND ONE OF THE KEY SUBJECTS WERE THEIR VALUES (AND YOU CAN READ "POLICIES") SO THAT EVERY EMPLOYEE COULD, WHEN QUESTIONED IN THE FIELDS, RECITE THE COMPANIES VALUES AND RELATE WHO THEY APPLIED TO EVERYDAY OPERATIONS. VERY IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUSTRATES THAT THE ONLY LIMIT TO THE SIZE OF SUCH AN EFFECT IS THE COMMITMENT THE COMPANY HAS TO TRAINING. IN THIS CASE COMPANY EXECUTIVES PERFORMED MUCH OF THE TRAINING. CLEARLY A PARADIGM SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT IN A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL COMPANY.
I do not believe there is a limit. Just more work with more people. When we examined the Ritz Carlton for the Baldrige Award, we asked an elevator operator what the company values where and he recited them verbatim and liked it. "Here's what we stand for..." and if you caught a maid in the hallways and asked directions, she would drop everything and take you there. More people help re-inforce the values and create an internal training system but you still have to also train everyone in the company and communicate about values often from executives and department heads down.
The tools exist in today's world to do that as a government - as leadership of a country and those tools have been highjacked to push a narrative...something you designed to sound like the truth and to make it easier to "herd" the population. Too many lies to go back now.
Very well put. I learn a lot from the connections you present, like the connection between propaganda and voting. I think it was Socrates who said "Democracy is only as good as the education around it." After reading this I start feeling more that the buy-in to the system is a buy-in to 'illusion' as you put it.
Thanks for the feedback! And great Socrates quote for this! Perfectly said. The more modern take I have is "Democracy is only as good as people are informed." :)
Agreed. Interestingly I think it can be tough to discern the difference between truth and propaganda if one doesn't have, or take, the time to look more deeply. I think this might be where most people are at in the West.
Only rarely are other people the enemy, unless we choose to make them so. Our own ignorance and intolerance is always the enemy. That also rings true for people "on the other side." Guns and assorted weapons do not kill people all that often. Governments do!
"According to these documents, creating content that points out the insanity of our current financial system is also now “misinformation,” and you could be labelled as a domestic terrorist." Same as buying gas made from oil produced by terrorist supporting nations??
Clear, logical and thought-provoking. Thanks. The Pulse has become one of my pitstops of sanity.
Joe, I have been following you for years starting with Collective Evolution and no censorship has kept me from reading your writings. I don't quite understand how censorship made your following drop so much because you are still there online. You have consistently been one of the top voices for common sense and a strong moral stand through this madness when others have gone over the edge with drama. There have been times when YOUR voice has given me any hope of sanity I could find. I am very old now and never dreamed life would be like this - I thought humanity would mature - especially after the predicted changes of 2012. I try to have a longer view of this chaos being a catalyst for awakening because I can't deal with life otherwise. I see you suffer in this and I am so sorry. Try not to be discouraged because you are truly one of the good guys and I am deeply grateful.
A lot to think about here. Thanks for this!
Oh, is part 3 of your Great Reset series coming soon?
Wow, good memory! I have been compiling it for a bit, but haven't had a chance to fully finish yet. I'm hoping within March.
I served for a time as a Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner...and later "Performance Excellence Program" - examiners are volunteers who have been trained to apply a criteria for performance excellence while examining companies who apply for the award.
At that time I had led companies of my own for 30 years and had certain practices that were informed by my examination of excellent companies and what they do.
I learned that excellent companies share the truth...they take control of the narrative by making sure everyone has the facts...the truth...as much as was possible. And if they got it wrong, then they immediately corrected it.
So this must have been the practice that was highjacked and became a "narrative" - something concocted to sound like the truth but was not the truth and was what the powers thought they could sell that would serve their purpose.
Telling your employees the facts and the truth rather than a narrative is still a best practice for the truly excellent high-performing companies.
ESG of course existed and still does in these excellence companies but it was applied as a value system that a hammer to beat up the board and threaten financial exclusion. Examiners like myself understood that companies with strong value systems could achieve better results because employees were loyal and worked hard for companies that stood for something. Employees know the difference as does our population at large.
This is a great anecdote to share, and something that I think applies deeply to society at large. I imagine the companies with clear value systems and truth telling habits tend to not end up in situations where their employees see through the nonsense of leadership, maintaining connection and trust.
Whereas companies who are always lying or deceiving will lose the trust of the employees who will then perform worse and eventually leave. Now imagine this at a governmental and society level.. what we have today for sure.
Thanks again for sharing your anecdote and experience!
One question that pops up: do you think there is a limit in terms of the amount of people that can be on the same page with values, truth etc?
What I mean by that is, a company might be 1000 people or 20,000.. a country could be 30 million. Does it become harder to be 'excellent' the larger the population gets?
WE EXAMINED A COMPANY (A FARM THAT GREW TREES AND PLANTS FOR RETAIL NURSERIES) THEY EMPLOYEES THOUSANDS OF MIGRANT WORKERS WHO CAME BACK EVERY YEAR AFTER 3 MONTHS IN MEXICO. THEY TRAINED THESE EMPLOYEES ANNUALLY AND ONE OF THE KEY SUBJECTS WERE THEIR VALUES (AND YOU CAN READ "POLICIES") SO THAT EVERY EMPLOYEE COULD, WHEN QUESTIONED IN THE FIELDS, RECITE THE COMPANIES VALUES AND RELATE WHO THEY APPLIED TO EVERYDAY OPERATIONS. VERY IMPRESSIVE AND ILLUSTRATES THAT THE ONLY LIMIT TO THE SIZE OF SUCH AN EFFECT IS THE COMMITMENT THE COMPANY HAS TO TRAINING. IN THIS CASE COMPANY EXECUTIVES PERFORMED MUCH OF THE TRAINING. CLEARLY A PARADIGM SHIFT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT IN A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL COMPANY.
I do not believe there is a limit. Just more work with more people. When we examined the Ritz Carlton for the Baldrige Award, we asked an elevator operator what the company values where and he recited them verbatim and liked it. "Here's what we stand for..." and if you caught a maid in the hallways and asked directions, she would drop everything and take you there. More people help re-inforce the values and create an internal training system but you still have to also train everyone in the company and communicate about values often from executives and department heads down.
The tools exist in today's world to do that as a government - as leadership of a country and those tools have been highjacked to push a narrative...something you designed to sound like the truth and to make it easier to "herd" the population. Too many lies to go back now.
Very well put. I learn a lot from the connections you present, like the connection between propaganda and voting. I think it was Socrates who said "Democracy is only as good as the education around it." After reading this I start feeling more that the buy-in to the system is a buy-in to 'illusion' as you put it.
Thanks for the feedback! And great Socrates quote for this! Perfectly said. The more modern take I have is "Democracy is only as good as people are informed." :)
propaganda Is the oldest trick in book and it is always up to you to determine whether you embrace that or not.
Agreed. Interestingly I think it can be tough to discern the difference between truth and propaganda if one doesn't have, or take, the time to look more deeply. I think this might be where most people are at in the West.
Only rarely are other people the enemy, unless we choose to make them so. Our own ignorance and intolerance is always the enemy. That also rings true for people "on the other side." Guns and assorted weapons do not kill people all that often. Governments do!
Well said Peter!
Love your reflection back in school to where, "every country uses propaganda and they're bad... but no, not over here. We're the good guys!"
Definitely recommend folks learning more about propaganda because once you realize it, you realize it's EVERYWHERE! Here's a good article that discusses it: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-corporations-influence-you-and
Indeed. Thinking back to high school and how things were presented.. man it's a revealing thing look back on. lol