Comments on: Blackmailing Your Boss: The Key to Wealth and Power http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/23/blackmailing-your-boss-the-key-to-wealth-and-power/ Overthinking It subjects the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hazel http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/23/blackmailing-your-boss-the-key-to-wealth-and-power/#comment-7357 Hazel Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:04:53 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=6263#comment-7357 Also, I great chart caption. Wheee! Also, I great chart caption. Wheee!

]]> By: Gab http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/23/blackmailing-your-boss-the-key-to-wealth-and-power/#comment-7354 Gab Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:16:54 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=6263#comment-7354 Kevin Spacey came a long way from the asshole boss getting tortured in _Swimming With Sharks_ to the guy calling the shots in _American Beauty_. Kevin Spacey came a long way from the asshole boss getting tortured in _Swimming With Sharks_ to the guy calling the shots in _American Beauty_.

]]> By: Johann http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/23/blackmailing-your-boss-the-key-to-wealth-and-power/#comment-7353 Johann Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=6263#comment-7353 I just wann say: Great piece, well researched and highly enjoyable! I just wann say: Great piece, well researched and highly enjoyable!

]]> By: Jason http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/03/23/blackmailing-your-boss-the-key-to-wealth-and-power/#comment-7311 Jason Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:07:39 +0000 http://www.overthinkingit.com/?p=6263#comment-7311 Lest we forget- the other, far more influential film of '99- The Matrix. You want to talk about illusions, this is the place. All three films share a common theme- middle class white men discovering their true identity after years of repression by corporate society, and all three have scenes with douchebag bosses. While Jack and Lester take up arms against their employers, Thomas is still being exposed to the lie that his company ('one of the biggest software firms in the world') is part of. Perhaps the nagging sensation, splinter in his mind, the reason, as Trinity tells us, 'why you don't sleep at night'- like insomniac Jack, or masturbating Lester- is because he knows it's all a house of cards. Shit. This goes beyond the dot coms. We're through the looking glass now people. Stay tuned. Lest we forget- the other, far more influential film of ’99- The Matrix. You want to talk about illusions, this is the place. All three films share a common theme- middle class white men discovering their true identity after years of repression by corporate society, and all three have scenes with douchebag bosses.

While Jack and Lester take up arms against their employers, Thomas is still being exposed to the lie that his company (‘one of the biggest software firms in the world’) is part of.

Perhaps the nagging sensation, splinter in his mind, the reason, as Trinity tells us, ‘why you don’t sleep at night’- like insomniac Jack, or masturbating Lester- is because he knows it’s all a house of cards.

Shit. This goes beyond the dot coms. We’re through the looking glass now people. Stay tuned.

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