The valley stretched from the lower San Fransisco Bay area to San Jose and was mostly beautiful fruit orchards. John Arrillaga and his partner bought the land and developed it into what is today known as Silicon Valley, home of Facebook, Google, Apple and many others giant corporations. It's also a venture investment center. The San Andreas fault passes directly under it.
Sheryl Sandberg is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Facebook. I just now finished reading a new book titled Chaos Monkeys, Obscene Fortune And Random Failure In Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author was a young startup honcho in Silicon Valley and he details the corporate culture as problematic in its lack of ethics, a characteristic seemingly intrinsic for success in the business. It's a little bit over half of the book of nearly 500 pages until the author finally winds up at Facebook as a project manager. Sheryl Sandberg is thus one of the main characters in the latter half of the book. Just today Breitbart reported, from released Wikileaks, a comment she had made to John Podesta that she "very badly" wanted Hillary Clinton to win the presidency.
I read a couple of these corporate insider books every year but it only took me about a millisecond to put this one under my arm after seeing that this was mostly about Facebook, for I've written numerous posts over the years on my extreme concern, and that to say the very least, on social media and particularly Facebook. The language in the book is very rough. The author was more brutally honest in describing himself and his own actions than that of any of the other characters in the book. He's likable yet very unlikable at the same time.
Corporate America, much of it anyway...way too much of it, seems to have slid off into the netherworld of profit over humanity but the author focuses on a different problem....something he is an expert in....profits over ethics. He describes employees in this megalith of a corporation as being indoctrinated that they are now an elite corps of visionaries that are changing the world, but at the same time they are not informed that they also have been conscripted into a corporate security force of sorts where they take on the characteristics of guardians whose devotion to the cause overrides the everyday discernment that they probably had prior to indoctrination. This will be a typical post of mine in that it is not long and detailed. I attempt to put a concept in the readers mind and hope that it germinates on its own.
Antonio Garcia Martinez takes the reader first, and only for a short time, into the financial sector of corporate America, and then into the meetings and interviews of a Silicon Valley company startup, and finally into the heart of the behemoths themselves, primarily Facebook but also Twitter and Google.
Many of these behemoths are centered entirely around a single person of extraordinary power. Mark Zuckerberg is certainly one. That person then acquires followers, in this case personal success is the initial lure whereas in a typical religious cultic environment, a topic of which I am well versed and knowledgeable, spiritual elitism is the draw. One then comes to believe in the founder in spite of any misgivings one might normally have had. The author describes this zealous devotion in similar terms.
In Christianity, in what are known as 'Christian cults' (Christian in name but denying the very foundations of Christianity), what is needed is a strong and vigilant defense of the Christian faith. Transfer this to corporate America and what is needed is a strong and vigilant defense of the foundations of the nation that the corporation operates within, in this case a defense of the American creed and the Constitution and its once firm belief in God and His written Word.
In the former....take away sound biblical knowledge and you wind up with a false prophet and a false religion. In the latter.....take away sound constitutional original intent and you wind up with a borderless, globalism comprised of corporations.... not congresses and liberty and freedom and not even the rule of law. This is where we are heading! The blurb on the book's jacket cover ends with this sentence...."Chaos Monkeys lay bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world. The question is, how will we survive?" This trend for a global corporate government, along with all the images and corporate logos that we are so familiar with seeing, will be the future for most; but the written word, in particular the written Word of God, will be the future for others. I'll leave you with that.
Sheryl Sandberg is the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Facebook. I just now finished reading a new book titled Chaos Monkeys, Obscene Fortune And Random Failure In Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author was a young startup honcho in Silicon Valley and he details the corporate culture as problematic in its lack of ethics, a characteristic seemingly intrinsic for success in the business. It's a little bit over half of the book of nearly 500 pages until the author finally winds up at Facebook as a project manager. Sheryl Sandberg is thus one of the main characters in the latter half of the book. Just today Breitbart reported, from released Wikileaks, a comment she had made to John Podesta that she "very badly" wanted Hillary Clinton to win the presidency.
I read a couple of these corporate insider books every year but it only took me about a millisecond to put this one under my arm after seeing that this was mostly about Facebook, for I've written numerous posts over the years on my extreme concern, and that to say the very least, on social media and particularly Facebook. The language in the book is very rough. The author was more brutally honest in describing himself and his own actions than that of any of the other characters in the book. He's likable yet very unlikable at the same time.
Corporate America, much of it anyway...way too much of it, seems to have slid off into the netherworld of profit over humanity but the author focuses on a different problem....something he is an expert in....profits over ethics. He describes employees in this megalith of a corporation as being indoctrinated that they are now an elite corps of visionaries that are changing the world, but at the same time they are not informed that they also have been conscripted into a corporate security force of sorts where they take on the characteristics of guardians whose devotion to the cause overrides the everyday discernment that they probably had prior to indoctrination. This will be a typical post of mine in that it is not long and detailed. I attempt to put a concept in the readers mind and hope that it germinates on its own.
Antonio Garcia Martinez takes the reader first, and only for a short time, into the financial sector of corporate America, and then into the meetings and interviews of a Silicon Valley company startup, and finally into the heart of the behemoths themselves, primarily Facebook but also Twitter and Google.
Many of these behemoths are centered entirely around a single person of extraordinary power. Mark Zuckerberg is certainly one. That person then acquires followers, in this case personal success is the initial lure whereas in a typical religious cultic environment, a topic of which I am well versed and knowledgeable, spiritual elitism is the draw. One then comes to believe in the founder in spite of any misgivings one might normally have had. The author describes this zealous devotion in similar terms.
In Christianity, in what are known as 'Christian cults' (Christian in name but denying the very foundations of Christianity), what is needed is a strong and vigilant defense of the Christian faith. Transfer this to corporate America and what is needed is a strong and vigilant defense of the foundations of the nation that the corporation operates within, in this case a defense of the American creed and the Constitution and its once firm belief in God and His written Word.
In the former....take away sound biblical knowledge and you wind up with a false prophet and a false religion. In the latter.....take away sound constitutional original intent and you wind up with a borderless, globalism comprised of corporations.... not congresses and liberty and freedom and not even the rule of law. This is where we are heading! The blurb on the book's jacket cover ends with this sentence...."Chaos Monkeys lay bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world. The question is, how will we survive?" This trend for a global corporate government, along with all the images and corporate logos that we are so familiar with seeing, will be the future for most; but the written word, in particular the written Word of God, will be the future for others. I'll leave you with that.
