Lord of the Rings: The Naps of Power
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If finances were to going to stop this, Disney Star Wars would be good by now. In any sufficiently large company, the managers will eventually conspire, often unwittingly, to defraud the shareholders for personal and ideological gain. The managerial class has a level of class conciousness that Marx imagined existed in the bourgeoisie.
Sowell's Knowledge And Decisions, Burnham's Managerial Revolution and Sam Francis' Levithan And Its Enemies all touch on different aspects of how and why this happens.
I need to get those. Thanks. I know for me it’s wishful thinking. It’s been shown over and over that crapping on the real fans doesn’t work in the long run but they don’t care. Also notice how Star Wars keeps making shows in the past because they did such a crappy sequel.
Not entirely true. Star Wars has been such a profound disappointment for Disney that there are no new movies in production. Zaslav at WB has been cutting projects left and right: CNN+ was canceled after just a few weeks. Batgirl was canceled after it was finished (or 95% finished). If they truly didn't care, they would still be pumping out movies, and Brian Stelter would still have a job.
Well that is a ray of sunshine. Thanks.
Constantinople wasn't sieged in a day, friend.
It turns out that dumpster fires only get bigger when you throw a pile of green paper on top of it.
Amazon recommends Burnham's Defenders of Freedom as well.
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom is also good, but if I had to recommend only one, which I must lest I begin to list dozens of books on elite theory totaling tens of thousands of pages, it would be The Managerial Revolution.