19th March 2010, 01:01 PM
GnomeKing Wrote:Really good managers, interested in real research beyond the limits of there own knowledge, are notable and praiseworthy...they are hampered by the 'commercial culture' as midi has pointed out....
Bad faith as a motivation is not required for this optimization to occur. Many middle managers operate in an ignorant space.. the most common active bad faith crime is one of denial tempered by an internal argument that see's one's role as making the best out of a bad situation.. Even PM who operate with a degree of integrity are incapable of stemming this all pervading mindset and are in efffect operating under the mantle of bad faith whether they intend to or not.. the problem is larger than their job description which is a fact they in the main refuse to address... ie if the system is bruuuk up change the system
the world is corrupt this we know.... however when this corruption entrenches itself in a functional and institutional way nothing works.. it is a matter of degree.. we have passed the point were the good offsets the bad
I would add I am not harking back to some golden age when archaeology was good...because it wasn't.. some aspects were better and some aspects have improved (gosh) but on balance the end goal of actual converting the money poured into archaeology into meaningful analysis has been an almost total failure .
that is quite a claim but i stand by it... the money and opportunities of teh last 2 decades will probably not come round again so easily. They were largely wasted.