the crisis management feature in WorldX

What feature in the WorldX operating system would bring-in such heavies as Mme.All-red and M.Geragos from the media created celebrity defense industry, unfailingly drawn to the scent of money and lots of it? It would be extensive Image Consulting negotiations also known as the reverse of crisis management, we can call it crisis creation and we can call it benefitting from manufactured crisis. For example, what if you had one gig and that's all anybody knew you did, you make a tidy fortune off that one gig, but you saw it was a dead end in the long run, that hanging around on the green with others hanging around in the green wasn't enough when nothing is ever enough, and you had a secret craving for something more, something perhaps narcissistic too, like a book and multi movie deal. In other words, Tiger wants to be an actor. In his circle of green acquaintances and connections in-the-know, easily he would come across those who could arrange a change of career. How successful this would turn out depends on how badly Tiger wants his wish fulfilled, much like selling his soul to the devil. Arrangements would have to be outrageously expensive, its never as easy as it looks, or rather, is made to look, even though most of us would never know or suspect enough to look. The public is predictable, its not hard to take over their attentions with a sex scandal no matter what horrors are occurring elsewhere, anywhere. Yes, even while human beings are dying duct-taped and gagged with rags at Guantanamo, a sex scandal takes precedence over all else as Image Consultants well know, and as Elliot Spitzer came to learn.

I have quoted many times on this blog the age old line sex and money makes the world go round. Oh, you think its war that makes it spin, no, money makes war and war makes money. In this way, money actually trumps sex.

I'm not shocked, just disgusted. It keeps happening, in the space of mere days we had dinnergate crashing right into womanizergate running parallel to climategate. You should ask "Who is behind this?" Certainly, it would be lame to suggest these things just happen. No, it is part of what we have come to expect, there are no accidents. It only appears to the masses as every once in a while some fool actually does something media worthy, always something negative, criminal or scornful, and during the shock and furor small word leaks out about the involvement of a damage consultant on the job, a slide-by detail, as if this were the most normal thing in the world. Oh, why there is nothing at all strange about hiring a "public relations" group to push a variance of a story and create an aura that is the opposite of the aura actually surrounding an event. Definitely, that is one of the worst features, and least mentioned to my knowledge anyway, about our current status in lovely WorldX. Have a look for yourself the next time, or this time, something foolish comes to the forefront like balloon boy and morphs and fleshes expansively as it floats through the populations like shake and bake in the water supply.

If crisis managers can change the public perception, why limit that line of work to rerouting a crisis already taking place, why not create crisis on demand? All the tools to do so are already available in their workplace, the connections, the legal teams, and for the right price, plenty of people are willing to participate, eager even to make the cover of the tabloids, to be seen, known, perhaps for them there will be book and movie deals as well?

Not every consulting firm is as good at these projects as some others are, like anything, a mere handful are skilled enough to execute the job flawlessly and others - just not quite as well. I suspect in Tiger's case it won't produce the obviously lavishly expensive results desired, perhaps he should have negotiated with a few others before settling on that one with the loudest mouth and not the best plan. He doesn't really have the "it" factor and no one told him because he was busy being leveraged.

If media did not exist, would these crises take place? If media was not entertainment with consequence, would it be of any interest to anyone? Notice in the Tiger project how many profited financially - and those are just the ones you know about. Look at dinner gate, how do the Solahis rate newsworthiness other than by what has happened since? They may still get their reality show because after all they were just the dimestore players in a larger crisis of greater consequence in which ever-burgeoning security enhancements further buttress the fortress of far bigger fish.