I agree with your points DD.
There is a sense of hubris in which the members of the governing body
view their appointment for office. A privilege they think... but it is also a poisoned
chalice.
The first and overriding need at the start of the new century was to fix
an enormous patch on the gaping wound inflicted by Fred Franz’s colossal error of
the “1914-generation”.
The way they attempted it was by
getting the most affable and least assertive GB member Jack Barr to sell his
soul to the devil and contrive an excuse. Using tried and tested Watchtower
brand logic, he said to the long suffering and gullible masses that when Jesus used
the word generation he “evidently”
meant overlapping generations. (pause for vomit)
This implausible claptrap has set the tone for the post 2000 GB. The
Watchtower looked stale and backward. The glorious information revolution was
under way and the Tower was under threat. This threat has in fact increased the
pressure on the GB by exposing their dirty washing in public. For example their
gross hypocrisy in denouncing the UN organization and secretly joining it. Another
internet exposure is their total incapacity for a humane response to the
children sexually abused in their midst.
A rebranding was advised and carried through to forget the ugly, sterile
and antique Watchtower logo and replace it with” JW org” on a heavenly blue
background. (As the RC Church uses for its prime icon Mary). Perhaps with a new logo and flashy TV channel, the JW
punters would be distracted away from the 1914 blunder and be seduced by the GB
on the small screen?
Forget Fred Franz and his
intellectual garbage; dumb it down so that the most uneducated third world
peasant can understand. The West and its sophistication have had enough of
Watchtower prattle...the developing world is the new target area.
The touchstone for success under GB2.0 is now that of loyalty to the GB.
Sins can always be forgiven but NOT disloyalty to the seven baboons of
Brooklyn.
The public appearance of the GB on the JWTV extravaganza must have been
seen as a public relations attempt to get the flock to be more familiar with
HQ. However, they present as either oddballs or inept. I would imagine their PR advisers
now think differently and must withdraw them offstage to redeem themselves away from
the TV spotlights.
Hubris is always answered by the Gods...