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Improving the functioning and outcomes of any system is a critical issue especially for formal organizations. Rationalizing on the processes and inputs is universally considered a technique to improve system-wide performance.
 
The simple input-output ratio forms the basis of all attempts at ensuring greater outcomes. Achieving near perfect ratio in a mechanical non-living system is easily achievable but in a human system, rationalization beyond a limit can kill authenticity, spontaneity, authentic human gesture and several ways of relating.
 

There are two principle chords in music.  Major and Minor.  Major chords are traditionally associated with happiness, joy and have a bright optimistic tonality about them.  Minor chords on the other hand have a darker feel, conveying a sense of sadness, grief, tragedy or other manifestations of sombriety.

The question is, what is it exactly within these chords that is responsible for such a dichotomy of emotions?  What makes 'sad' music so sad?

A Humiliatrix is a specific type of female dominant skilled in the particular art of erotic humiliation and/or real-life humiliation.

Being very much a contemporary term, a Humiliatrix can be thought of as being more of an intellectual or 'modern dominant', inflicting stress and mental anguish via the power of the word, rather than the whip. Its usage is frequently combined with similarly modern fetish scenarios such as urban, office, Valley Girl, and college/university environments. (e.g Office Humiliatrix).

You really have to love Aldous Huxley, especially when distilled down into his essential quotes, from Wikiquote:

WAX ON THE FUTURE has some problems with memetics, especially the concept of "religion is a cultural virus." The way I see it, even if God exists, the transmission of His word is still memetic. To say that religion is memetic does not automatically disprove spirit or the devine. The enculturation of science is memetic, which doesn't disprove science. Memes are neutral, agnostic, and the messenger. Remember not to kill the messenger.

Although it is only a part of a larger discussion about Nordicism and Nationalism, I really love what "Anon" said about the life, growth, culture, and evolution of language, which is also a fantastic definition of memetics, too:

Jeff Maurone nailed it when he talked about most people's only understanding of memetics and memes coming from pop culture books: "I really enjoy sociology books. I know they're bad for me, but I keep buying them: Barbara Ehrenreich, Louis Menand, Malcolm Gladwell.