Indeed! With all of the memes and caricatures of Bill Gates portrayed as the demonic energy force that inhabits him, I find this 2010 quote about Ellison that describes him as even worse than Gates to be very illuminating:
"Ellison is also among the most feared executives in corporate America, well-known for his aggressive style and hardball tactics. “He’s pretty cutthroat,” said Sloane Stricker, chief technology officer for Broomfield-based Datavail, which provides database support services. “And if you asked somebody, they’d rather work for Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.”"
How did I find this story? Let's just say I had friends with a front seat to who Ellison really is who shared with me backstory information that never makes its way into the newspapers.
In the 1990's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software boom era of competitive growth there were a couple big players like Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft and several next tier ones. JD Edwards was one of those next tier players that was full of innovation and had growth ambition.
The executive team of JDE was approached by Oracle, Larry Ellison with an offer to buy. Like Microsoft and other top dogs in industries they try to buy those companies that provide products they can't produce as well and/or fear being surpassed by in a free market.
JDE leadership did something that few do in that situation: They said "no" to their suitor. Something that Larry Ellison wasn't used to hearing, "no." Which infuriated him. He got up from the negotiating table and ominously, nastily, demonstrably, with flailing hands and arms, spit spewing out of his mouth as he growled, "I *WILL* own you! I will bury you! If it's the last thing I do I'll make sure you'll rue the day you said "no" to ME!!"
A petulant, angry child who nobody ever said no to. The JDE team took his threats seriously. Oracle made overtures to JDE shareholders. Their offer was rejected. JDE's board and shareholders adopted several poison pill corporate defenses their legal team came up with. Succeeding - momentarily - in preserving their independence from Oracle.
But the ERP market was changing rapidly. And Oracle wanted to be the Microsoft of ERP and all big corporate software. And JD Edwards was undercapitalized compared to the rest of the market. Top JDE brass, not wanting to ever be under Oracle after the experience they had with Ellison looked at PeopleSoft as a friendly partner to merge with. They put the deal together to bring them both together.
All was well - seemingly. And then Ellison swooped in and Oracle bought out PeopleSoft. He was not to be denied. His Oracle now owns JD Edwards. Just like he promised/threatened. Oracle has even kept the JD Edwards name around, their feature, best of class OneWorld/EnterpriseOne still branded and supported under Oracle.
I suspect just to rub the noses of JDE leaders in it, an "I Won" flag planted on his trophy kill.
Several of JDE's former top brass who audaciously said "no" to Ellison have since passed away. Top brass who were sources for the backstory that doesn't make its way into the newspapers. Kind of young. I'm sure of natural causes. That's who Larry Ellison is. Just in case anyone had any questions. Saying "no" to him ends up being hazardous to ones health and well-being.
I worked for Oracle as a technologist back in the mid and late 1990’s. It was like a graduate course in how to survive in a brutal corporate environment which I ultimately could not.
They did offer a subsidized cafeteria with good food and an excellent gym such that one could almost live there on their Redwood Shores campus, the former home of Sea World. I suspect Larry fired the dolphins for insubordination.
"We live in an economy which takes 80% of our each new generation and educates that 80% to obey orders and to endure boredom, and stifles their creativity, and stifles their capacities, and curtails them. They're systematically crushed by a system which does what? Which fills slots, and 80% of the slots need people who just do rote tedious repetitive labour at least at work, and therefore are acclimated to doing that...
If you're callous to the effects on others, you have a potential to rise. The odds are that you can 'compete' your way up. If you care and are socially concerned about others, you're at a tremendous disadvantage. So I think the competitive dynamic that we have does sort of weed out a set of people for success. But I would say that what it weeds out for success is not competence, not creativity, not intelligence, but callousness far more often." ~ Michael Albert
Selected excerpt from Noam Chomsky speaking tour for his book, "Manufacturing Consent." That feeds directly into Ellison's "make people behave" proclamation about the role he sees for Big Tech/AI as it fully integrates into government. The "Cool Observer" superior class of humanity. Unburdened by emotional weaknesses.
"If you go back to the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences published in 1933 — days when people were a little more open and honest in what they said — there’s an article on propaganda, and it’s well worth reading. There’s an entry under propaganda. The entry is written by a leading- one- maybe the leading American political scientist, Harold Lasswell, who was very influential, particularly in this area, communications, and so on. And in this entry in the International Encyclopedia on propaganda he says, we should not succumb to democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests. They’re not, he said. Even with the rise of mass education- doesn’t mean that people can judge their own interests. They can’t. The best judges of their interests are elites — the specialized class, the cool observers, the people who have rationality — and therefore they must be granted the means to impose their will. Notice, for the common good. Because, again, because- well, he says, because of the ignorance and superstition of the masses, he said it’s necessary to have a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda. Propaganda, he says, we shouldn’t have a negative connotation about, it’s neutral. Propaganda, he says, is as neutral as a pump handle. You can use it for good, you can use it for bad; since were good people, obviously, — that’s sort of true by definition — we’ll use it for good purposes, and there should be no negative connotations about that. In fact, it’s moral to use it, because that’s the only way that you can save the ignorant and stupid masses of the population from their own errors. You don’t let a three year old run across the street, and you don’t let ordinary people make their own decisions. You have to control them.
And why do you need propaganda? Well, he explains that. He says, in military-run or feudal societies — what we would these days call totalitarian societies — you don’t really need propaganda that much. And the reason is you’ve got a- you’ve got a club in your hand. You can control the way people behave, and therefore it doesn’t matter much what they think, because if they get out of line you can control them — for their own good, of course. But once you lose the club, you know, once the State loses its capacity to coerce by force, then you have some problems. The voice of the people is heard — you’ve got all these formal mechanisms around that permit people to express themselves, and even participate, and vote, and that sort of thing — and you can’t control them by force, because you’ve lost that capacity. But the voice of the people is heard, and therefore you’ve got to make sure it says the right thing. And in order to make sure it says the right thing, you’ve got to have effective and sophisticated propaganda, again, for their own good.
So in a- as a society becomes more free — that is, there’s less capacity to coerce — it simply needs more sophisticated indoctrination and propaganda. For the public good.
The similarity between this and Leninist ideology is very striking. According to Leninist ideology, the cool observers, the radical intelligentsia, will be the vanguard who will lead the stupid and ignorant masses on to, you know, communist utopia, because they’re too stupid to work it out by themselves.
And in fact there’s been a very easy transition over these years between one and the other position. You know, it’s very striking that continually people move from one position to the other, very easily. And I think the reason for the ease is partly because they’re sort of the same position. So you can be either a Marxist-Leninist commissar, or you can be somebody celebrating the magnificence of State capitalism, and you can serve those guys. It’s more or less the same position. You pick one or the other depending on your estimate of where power is, and that can change.
The- and in fact the mainstream of the intelligentsia, I think over the last, say, through this century, have tended to be in one or the other camp. Either- there’s this strong appeal of Marxism-Leninism to the intelligentsia, for obvious reasons — I don’t have to bother saying. And there’s the same appeal of these doctrines to the intelligentsia, because it puts them in the position of justifying- of having a justified role as ideological managers, in the service of real power, corporate/State power. For the public good, of course. So you naturally are tempted to one or the other position."
I saw the film, Manufacturing Consent, some time ago. Recommended.
I'm also an anarchist.
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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky
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"Behind Boetie's thinking was the assumption, later spelled out in great detail by David Hume, that states cannot rule by force alone. This is because the agents of government power are always outnumbered by those they rule. To insure compliance with their dictates, it is essential to convince the people that their servitude is somehow in their own interest. They do this by manufacturing ideological systems..." ~ Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable..." ~ H.L. Mencken
I think this painting shows his inhumanity, his ego and cruelty perfectly. Perhaps the most repellent person I've ever laid eyes on. My soul recoils in horror when I see his image.
Ok, well now you're supposed to buy it and put it up on your livingroom wall. (And then maybe invite over some Ellison fans with money and an interest in art.)
I cannot imagine Ellison's foul countenance gazing back at me from my living room wall. Or any wall. A truly accurate painting that captures his rancid soul perfectly.
Maybe Caitlin can make the money off of one of Ellison's sycophants, or an investor with an eye toward its resale value to them... or someone with a sadomasochistic sense of humour...
'Hey folks, we're having another party in my livingroom again with that painting on the wall... Ok ok, the booze is on the house this time, how's that? And on another wall, I've got a new painting to show you from Caitlin of Bibi.'
Here is a deceased friend of mine that did exactly that with his Hitler teapot. He sold one to a Jew unaware of the statement Charles was making. We had many interesting conversations about our shared interests and attended several gatherings Charles helped stage with some of the "white nationalist" luminaries of those days, like Greg Johnson.
A very powerful painting. I wonder what happens with it? Could anyone live iwith it on their wall...perhaps in a museum alongside the work of Goya and Bacon.
Ellison buys Paramount, CBS etc.. His Zionist blood appoints Bari Weiss to run CB$. The first 60 minutes(CBS) with Leslie Stahl (zio-etc.) is Zio Steve Witkoff & Zio Jared Kushner. Shut them down. One State Palestine.
Perhaps the founding work for a new and much-needed International Museum of Sociopathy & Depravity.
It would need to be located in a massive, dank underground abandoned cess pit to house all the portraits of western politicians and corporate bloodsuckers.
Hi Caitlin! How can you stand the torture of time painting this piece of Evil?
I paint as well, and I could not do it without constant wretching... The eyes are nicely red and mean, but overall he looks too good!What's most difficult is the portrayal of his moral vacuum and being utterly daft philosophically.
This is excellent Caitlin. Really excellent, by any definition. In addition to the qualities mentioned below, you successfully captured the collapsing facial features and the remedial measures taken.
Excellent likeness but doesn't show him as the true demon he is. It's missing the horns, cape, evil eyes, and devil's laugh. Would LOVE to see that artwork! 😉🤣
How is it you omitted the horns...?
Indeed! With all of the memes and caricatures of Bill Gates portrayed as the demonic energy force that inhabits him, I find this 2010 quote about Ellison that describes him as even worse than Gates to be very illuminating:
"Ellison is also among the most feared executives in corporate America, well-known for his aggressive style and hardball tactics. “He’s pretty cutthroat,” said Sloane Stricker, chief technology officer for Broomfield-based Datavail, which provides database support services. “And if you asked somebody, they’d rather work for Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.”"
https://www.denverpost.com/2010/02/26/oracle-wields-hefty-muscle-in-colorados-tech-sector/
How did I find this story? Let's just say I had friends with a front seat to who Ellison really is who shared with me backstory information that never makes its way into the newspapers.
In the 1990's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software boom era of competitive growth there were a couple big players like Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft and several next tier ones. JD Edwards was one of those next tier players that was full of innovation and had growth ambition.
The executive team of JDE was approached by Oracle, Larry Ellison with an offer to buy. Like Microsoft and other top dogs in industries they try to buy those companies that provide products they can't produce as well and/or fear being surpassed by in a free market.
JDE leadership did something that few do in that situation: They said "no" to their suitor. Something that Larry Ellison wasn't used to hearing, "no." Which infuriated him. He got up from the negotiating table and ominously, nastily, demonstrably, with flailing hands and arms, spit spewing out of his mouth as he growled, "I *WILL* own you! I will bury you! If it's the last thing I do I'll make sure you'll rue the day you said "no" to ME!!"
A petulant, angry child who nobody ever said no to. The JDE team took his threats seriously. Oracle made overtures to JDE shareholders. Their offer was rejected. JDE's board and shareholders adopted several poison pill corporate defenses their legal team came up with. Succeeding - momentarily - in preserving their independence from Oracle.
But the ERP market was changing rapidly. And Oracle wanted to be the Microsoft of ERP and all big corporate software. And JD Edwards was undercapitalized compared to the rest of the market. Top JDE brass, not wanting to ever be under Oracle after the experience they had with Ellison looked at PeopleSoft as a friendly partner to merge with. They put the deal together to bring them both together.
All was well - seemingly. And then Ellison swooped in and Oracle bought out PeopleSoft. He was not to be denied. His Oracle now owns JD Edwards. Just like he promised/threatened. Oracle has even kept the JD Edwards name around, their feature, best of class OneWorld/EnterpriseOne still branded and supported under Oracle.
I suspect just to rub the noses of JDE leaders in it, an "I Won" flag planted on his trophy kill.
Several of JDE's former top brass who audaciously said "no" to Ellison have since passed away. Top brass who were sources for the backstory that doesn't make its way into the newspapers. Kind of young. I'm sure of natural causes. That's who Larry Ellison is. Just in case anyone had any questions. Saying "no" to him ends up being hazardous to ones health and well-being.
I worked for Oracle as a technologist back in the mid and late 1990’s. It was like a graduate course in how to survive in a brutal corporate environment which I ultimately could not.
They did offer a subsidized cafeteria with good food and an excellent gym such that one could almost live there on their Redwood Shores campus, the former home of Sea World. I suspect Larry fired the dolphins for insubordination.
You'd better behave there! He'll find you now wherever you work. I think he already fired the dolphins for insubordination.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
"We live in an economy which takes 80% of our each new generation and educates that 80% to obey orders and to endure boredom, and stifles their creativity, and stifles their capacities, and curtails them. They're systematically crushed by a system which does what? Which fills slots, and 80% of the slots need people who just do rote tedious repetitive labour at least at work, and therefore are acclimated to doing that...
If you're callous to the effects on others, you have a potential to rise. The odds are that you can 'compete' your way up. If you care and are socially concerned about others, you're at a tremendous disadvantage. So I think the competitive dynamic that we have does sort of weed out a set of people for success. But I would say that what it weeds out for success is not competence, not creativity, not intelligence, but callousness far more often." ~ Michael Albert
Selected excerpt from Noam Chomsky speaking tour for his book, "Manufacturing Consent." That feeds directly into Ellison's "make people behave" proclamation about the role he sees for Big Tech/AI as it fully integrates into government. The "Cool Observer" superior class of humanity. Unburdened by emotional weaknesses.
https://chomsky.info/19890315/
"If you go back to the International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences published in 1933 — days when people were a little more open and honest in what they said — there’s an article on propaganda, and it’s well worth reading. There’s an entry under propaganda. The entry is written by a leading- one- maybe the leading American political scientist, Harold Lasswell, who was very influential, particularly in this area, communications, and so on. And in this entry in the International Encyclopedia on propaganda he says, we should not succumb to democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests. They’re not, he said. Even with the rise of mass education- doesn’t mean that people can judge their own interests. They can’t. The best judges of their interests are elites — the specialized class, the cool observers, the people who have rationality — and therefore they must be granted the means to impose their will. Notice, for the common good. Because, again, because- well, he says, because of the ignorance and superstition of the masses, he said it’s necessary to have a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda. Propaganda, he says, we shouldn’t have a negative connotation about, it’s neutral. Propaganda, he says, is as neutral as a pump handle. You can use it for good, you can use it for bad; since were good people, obviously, — that’s sort of true by definition — we’ll use it for good purposes, and there should be no negative connotations about that. In fact, it’s moral to use it, because that’s the only way that you can save the ignorant and stupid masses of the population from their own errors. You don’t let a three year old run across the street, and you don’t let ordinary people make their own decisions. You have to control them.
And why do you need propaganda? Well, he explains that. He says, in military-run or feudal societies — what we would these days call totalitarian societies — you don’t really need propaganda that much. And the reason is you’ve got a- you’ve got a club in your hand. You can control the way people behave, and therefore it doesn’t matter much what they think, because if they get out of line you can control them — for their own good, of course. But once you lose the club, you know, once the State loses its capacity to coerce by force, then you have some problems. The voice of the people is heard — you’ve got all these formal mechanisms around that permit people to express themselves, and even participate, and vote, and that sort of thing — and you can’t control them by force, because you’ve lost that capacity. But the voice of the people is heard, and therefore you’ve got to make sure it says the right thing. And in order to make sure it says the right thing, you’ve got to have effective and sophisticated propaganda, again, for their own good.
So in a- as a society becomes more free — that is, there’s less capacity to coerce — it simply needs more sophisticated indoctrination and propaganda. For the public good.
The similarity between this and Leninist ideology is very striking. According to Leninist ideology, the cool observers, the radical intelligentsia, will be the vanguard who will lead the stupid and ignorant masses on to, you know, communist utopia, because they’re too stupid to work it out by themselves.
And in fact there’s been a very easy transition over these years between one and the other position. You know, it’s very striking that continually people move from one position to the other, very easily. And I think the reason for the ease is partly because they’re sort of the same position. So you can be either a Marxist-Leninist commissar, or you can be somebody celebrating the magnificence of State capitalism, and you can serve those guys. It’s more or less the same position. You pick one or the other depending on your estimate of where power is, and that can change.
The- and in fact the mainstream of the intelligentsia, I think over the last, say, through this century, have tended to be in one or the other camp. Either- there’s this strong appeal of Marxism-Leninism to the intelligentsia, for obvious reasons — I don’t have to bother saying. And there’s the same appeal of these doctrines to the intelligentsia, because it puts them in the position of justifying- of having a justified role as ideological managers, in the service of real power, corporate/State power. For the public good, of course. So you naturally are tempted to one or the other position."
I saw the film, Manufacturing Consent, some time ago. Recommended.
I'm also an anarchist.
____
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky
--
"Behind Boetie's thinking was the assumption, later spelled out in great detail by David Hume, that states cannot rule by force alone. This is because the agents of government power are always outnumbered by those they rule. To insure compliance with their dictates, it is essential to convince the people that their servitude is somehow in their own interest. They do this by manufacturing ideological systems..." ~ Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
--
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable..." ~ H.L. Mencken
I think this painting shows his inhumanity, his ego and cruelty perfectly. Perhaps the most repellent person I've ever laid eyes on. My soul recoils in horror when I see his image.
Ok, well now you're supposed to buy it and put it up on your livingroom wall. (And then maybe invite over some Ellison fans with money and an interest in art.)
Suggestion - painting of Ellison, his son, Miriam Adelson and Bari Weiss preparing to eat a baby at a Passover feast.
Too literal.
I cannot imagine Ellison's foul countenance gazing back at me from my living room wall. Or any wall. A truly accurate painting that captures his rancid soul perfectly.
Caitlin, you’re too flattering to him - although I like the red eyes!
In my opinion you shouldn't have done this painting. A POS is not worth to be
~ Bibisect ~
Maybe Caitlin can make the money off of one of Ellison's sycophants, or an investor with an eye toward its resale value to them... or someone with a sadomasochistic sense of humour...
'Hey folks, we're having another party in my livingroom again with that painting on the wall... Ok ok, the booze is on the house this time, how's that? And on another wall, I've got a new painting to show you from Caitlin of Bibi.'
Here is a deceased friend of mine that did exactly that with his Hitler teapot. He sold one to a Jew unaware of the statement Charles was making. We had many interesting conversations about our shared interests and attended several gatherings Charles helped stage with some of the "white nationalist" luminaries of those days, like Greg Johnson.
https://counter-currents.com/2023/09/remembering-charles-krafft-3/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=krafft+teapot&atb=v498-1&ia=images&iax=images
Farewell Charles, we miss you ~ Arch Stanton
A very powerful painting. I wonder what happens with it? Could anyone live iwith it on their wall...perhaps in a museum alongside the work of Goya and Bacon.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-painting-larry-ellison/comment/168761336
The caption should read “ Eat the poor ! “
Ellison buys Paramount, CBS etc.. His Zionist blood appoints Bari Weiss to run CB$. The first 60 minutes(CBS) with Leslie Stahl (zio-etc.) is Zio Steve Witkoff & Zio Jared Kushner. Shut them down. One State Palestine.
Can't wait for Norman Finklestein to be on 60 minutes!
Is he scheduled?
Perhaps the founding work for a new and much-needed International Museum of Sociopathy & Depravity.
It would need to be located in a massive, dank underground abandoned cess pit to house all the portraits of western politicians and corporate bloodsuckers.
Hi Caitlin! How can you stand the torture of time painting this piece of Evil?
I paint as well, and I could not do it without constant wretching... The eyes are nicely red and mean, but overall he looks too good!What's most difficult is the portrayal of his moral vacuum and being utterly daft philosophically.
Fuccck him forever!
May the izraelis shrivel up and die in isolation!
And to you total respect, and love! ❤️✊🌺🍉❤️🙏
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great painting that captures the evil and cruelty and arrogance and danger
Creepy S.O.B.
This is excellent Caitlin. Really excellent, by any definition. In addition to the qualities mentioned below, you successfully captured the collapsing facial features and the remedial measures taken.
Larry and Co. are Zionist Genocider Firsters. One State Palestine.
Excellent likeness but doesn't show him as the true demon he is. It's missing the horns, cape, evil eyes, and devil's laugh. Would LOVE to see that artwork! 😉🤣
I think Caitlin depicted the evil perfectly, traces of blood in many places : ) Evil likes to hide.
There's something about the rat faced looks of a Larry Ellison and others that tells you all you need to know.
Just go with the feeling you get.
This is insulting to rats.