Week 2, Blog 1

In chapter 3, part II: Theories of Organizational Communication, on page 66, the author talks about from resistance to domination. This concept interests me because it dated back to slavery. During the civil war, North America organized and managed how slavery was going to work. With Agricultural work and organized labor, America staged a level of hierarchy. To me, its bewildering to see how much power was taken in to play during these times. From the diagram on page 70, you can clearly see how many more slaves there are on the slave ship than Americans. The order in which they all appear so close together, abusing the power by trying to fit and squeeze everyone in. This type of abusing organization reminds me of the holocaust as well. The way they are all controlled and ordered around to do things against their will. I can never fully grasp the idea that one person or a few can tell a huge group of people what to do. There is clearly more of them and less of the dictators. I reminds me a little of being in school. There is one teacher and thirty students in a classroom. Sometimes students might think the teacher is being unfair with grades, homework, tests, and what not. Instead of speaking up and petitioning together as students, we usually sit back and take whatever the teacher gives or tells us. I have always felt that since there is more of us students than teachers, that we could create a different hierarchy and change the power to the students. That never happens because we are taught to listen and follow the teachers instructions which makes us powerless like the slaves during the civil war.