Happy Days are Here Again!!!!

Chapter two of The Cluetrain Manifesto, sums up a very good idea that we lose ourselves in trying to make everything right. By being the best employee, or managing the best company. Every thing is a role that we play inorder to make it to the top. For instance in his book Locke notes that, "Just about all the concessions we make to work in a well-run, non- disturbing, secure, predictably successful, managed environment have to do with giving up our voice." (Locke; The Cluetrain Manifesto)

I feel that Locke is saying that our lives are built around making ourselves appear as if our lives are under control and that we are the best. But as we live our lives performing in front of our co-workers and our bosses, we lose what really makes us...well us. We aren't able to lose control one in a while or have a bad hair day. Our personal feelings about a subject must not interupt out professional lives. However, Locke believes that with the evolution of the internet, and with the ability to create a home webpage, people are given a place to offer up their voices with out a care of who is listening. " Because a home page is a place in which we can express who we are and let the world in. Meager though it may be, a home page is a way of having a voice." (Locke; The Cluetrain Manifesto)

I feel that this chapter offers hope to us. It looks at the internet as a safe haven for our minds. A great example of this can be found in Miss M's page. She has written some pretty good blogs on the Manifesto, but this one shows how the worker can express his or her true voice after playing pretend at work. Chris also feels as though this chapter has a more positive out look.