Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

If I may be permitted to make an observation, Cisco keeps saying that it is a champion of liberty and individual expression. In my opinion, statements like that blur the line between free speech and hate speech because they feed on people’s pain without providing any solutions. That’s why Cisco should have said instead that it has inadvertently provided us with an instructive example that I find useful in illustrating certain ideas. By playing on people’s conscious and unconscious belief structures, Cisco makes it clear that I don’t necessarily avow that its famuli exhibit a fundamental lack of native intelligence. It’s just that their minds are impressionable tabulae rasae when it comes to Cisco’s gasconade and its unwavering argument that it’s okay if its objectives initially cause our quality of life to degrade because sometime, someone will do something somehow to counteract that trend. The child who shouted The Emperor has no clothes! had it right. Perhaps we have to wait for our children to inform us that most of us have one serious weakness. Our moral and ethical values have made us helpless in the face of Cisco’s wickedness and immorality. One way to counter that weakness is for us to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that help vainglorious fugitives evade capture by the authorities. That’s a desperate measure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.