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My big gripe at this moment is that nothing is changing.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Maybe I have to go a little deeper for you to understand.\u00a0 When I look at the world through the lens of Deming’s Profound Knowledge I see people who’s every move, thought and desire is programmed for them.\u00a0 They buy labelled clothes not because they are in any way superior, but because they are supposed to.\u00a0 Women spend $20 Billion a year on cosmetics why?\u00a0 Could they not look just as lovely on 10 Billion?\u00a0 The money is spent not because it makes them look better, but they are told it will make them look better.\u00a0 So I see this huge system of control, and the worst kind of control, the control that makes you think you are free to choose.\u00a0 Well, in a way you are free to choose one of 10 different brands of designer jeans.\u00a0 What you are not free to do is choose no brand of designer jean.
\n\"\"<\/a>Can you see what I am getting at?\u00a0 An example could be a watch like Fossil.\u00a0 The early Fossil watches were extremely unique.\u00a0 I had one that had tiny license plates under the crystal.\u00a0 Still have it.\u00a0 I think I paid $40 for it.\u00a0 Today Fossil watches are almost identical.\u00a0 So why do people buy them.\u00a0 Because they are supposed to.\u00a0 It no longer matters what the quality of the watch is or what it looks like.\u00a0 It is a Fossil, buy it.\u00a0 Relic started in much the same way.\u00a0 There are hundreds of brands that started the same way, a unique quality product.\u00a0 Over time it becomes less and less about the uniqueness or the quality, and simply about the brand.\u00a0 And brands you are supposed to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My big gripe at this moment is that nothing is changing.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Maybe I have to go a little deeper for you to understand.\u00a0 When I look at the world through the lens of Deming’s Profound Knowledge I see … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}