Chapter 16 : The Decline of Civilisation

                     (Quotations from the book ‘The Decline of Civilisation’ by Janus Apinus)

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Ch.16b : Management Science

    Management Science became an art, prized by all who entered the business race. Students were taught about it in colleges, universities and all places of higher and further education, even though many of them would not later enter positions which would give them much management control or influence. Even so the subject was taught even to children, who were to become the first management generation, self managers as well as employing organisation managers. In many senses every citizen was to be their own manager, managing their careers as they evolved, juggling personal life with business, self managing every aspect of their own lives. Management became the new religion of the age, even though many were reluctant when they were encouraged to take courses in it. They had no choice, they could not avoid it. All were forced into the process of conversion. Those who refused to be converted were left behind in pockets of tradition and ignorance, or marginalised in benefit queues, hospitals, mental institutions, or poverty. There were many, of course, who pretended to be converted, and paid lip service to the new creed, knowing that their livelihoods depended on it, and that they had no alternative in the modern winds of progress. They waited silently, or sometimes speaking in whispers in small groups, and amongst their families, for the time when reason and normal humanity would return. That was 200 years ago, or maybe longer, and it never did return, until perhaps now, if enough people seek change.