Identity Obscurity:: Is a new era of Mass Subversiveness on its way?

Brand Killer Robots reveals::

For much of the 20th Century citizens and employees were given one set of keys. Keys to the front door! In addition to these keys they contributed numerous pieces of information that described elements of their identity to the company, to the banks and to Government. As we advanced our journey into the Internet era the proliferation in keys, identity charateristics and biometric checks continued to increase and we now entering a world of rich virtual personas. So now we have keys, passes, biometrics and behavioural analytics.

Everywhere our people go they are confronted by - who are you? What are you? Is that you?

The greater the intrusion of system behaviours upon human behaviour the greater the anxiety and fear applied to the human condition. The greater the anxiety and fear, the greater the propensity for human beings to evolve from one identity and to begin to adopt multiple identities in multiple real and virtual worlds environments.

So Edna of 21 Grace Road, Wimbeldon, who used to be very definately Edna 21 of Grace Road, Wimbeldon - could easily be pushed to psychological breaking point, where her fear drives her to begin running away from her lifelong true identity and into the arms of multiple identity fabrications.

Why wouldn't she do this if she were pushed to a point where she felt that her true identity had been stolen away from her, in effect losing ownership and thereby control over it. Why wouldn't she begin developing new identities, most of which were known only to her? Why wouldn't she want to keep some part of her secret - even if it were deliberately artificial? Why wouldn't she want to use both new and old virtualworld and realworld personas in the hope she might just avoid the thunderous army of identity theives on her tail?

Why wouldn't Edna choose "identity obscurity" instead of becoming someone elses "fixed data reference point".

Business Executives should consider rationalising identity systems within the organisation in order to ensure they are not contributing to employees choosing the path of "identity obscurity".

Are you a cold-blooded subversive - or worse still - a warm-blooded reptilian?

Brand Killer Robots reveal::

To answer this question lets first look at the definition for subvert.

sub·vert
–verb
1.
to overthrow (something established or existing).
2.
to cause the downfall, ruin, or destruction of.
3.
to undermine the principles of; corrupt.

If you consider that "to subvert" can sometimes result in the arrival of good results, as much as bad results, you can then consider whether "subverting" something can be done with or without conscience. In other words (without conscience) meaning cold-blooded subversion and (with conscience) meaning warm-blooded subversion. Here is an example of something that got subverted where the results of which were all good.

Paul was hired because the executive director wanted to sack half of the management team and didn't want the blood on his hands. The message he sent out was one of "the new guy is here to sort things out for the better" when he really mean't "he's here to sack half of you wasters".

Paul conducted some analysis and found that the problems were emanating from an entirely different source. He determined his approach which was to develop a plan that would appear inline with the executives true intentions, when in fact he was about to unleash a strategy that would resolve the problems entirely - without getting any blood on his hands. In short it was a strategy that would subvert the real nature of his appointment, yet resolve far deeper problems that lay at the heart of his business.

He did this cold-bloodely because he knew that what he was doing was the right thing and his conscience would always be clear. Had he been a total subversive (warm-blooded), he would have sacked all the people he was supposed to and probably become financially wealthy in the meantime.

But he opted for strategy which engendered both spiritual wealth and financial health for everyone concerned. The true cost of which meant that he lost his job.

Behold, a warm-blodded repitilian.