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... degenerate "is best" narrative, and rewards them. Demonizes the competent. Til things collapse.



This brings to mind previous discussions of "dofenism", especially this one:


As Ayn Rand understood, when the top 0.1% adopt "I would never have lifted a finger' as their preferred course of action ...

... when the top 0.1% adopt "I would never have lifted a finger' as their preferred course of action ("Going Galt", or in the former Soviet Union "Dofenism"), or are ignored, the top 2% absent the top 0.1% can run things into the ground very, very quickly. Of course, those numbers are approximate; I ...

... am personally planning to do this. I believe that will be enough to collapse the country and begin the descent into the Dark Age. We shall see.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2&p=19420&hilit=dofenism#p19420
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2&p=19421&hilit=dofenism#p19421

http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2011/08/dofenism.html

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2011

Dofenism
I saw an interesting term, called "Dofenism". It means "Why bother?"

It comes from the Soviet Union. In an absolute communist dictatorship, it makes no difference if you do a brilliant job or a barely ...

http://www.camse.org/andy/oil/Soviet_Advice.pdf

But very few of them have ever heard of the real operative "ism" that dominated Soviet life: Dofenism, which can be loosely translated as "not giving a rat's ass." A lot of people, more and more during the "stagnation" period of the 1980's, felt ...

http://www.camse.org/andy/oil/Soviet_Advice.pdf

But very few of them have ever heard of the real operative "ism" that dominated Soviet life: Dofenism, which can be loosely translated as "not giving a rat's ass." A lot of people, more and more during the "stagnation" period of the 1980's, felt ...

http://www.camse.org/andy/oil/Soviet_Advice.pdf

But very few of them have ever heard of the real operative "ism" that dominated Soviet life: Dofenism, which can be loosely translated as "not giving a rat's ass." A lot of people, more and more during the "stagnation" period of the 1980's, felt ...