Sometimes I think that people who work in environments where the path to success depends on doing what bosses say they want become immune to the defects of the organization, its goals, and ways of implementing their aims. So people end up working for thugs, knowing they are thugs and knowing that their work is not for anything good, but …
Sometimes I think that people who work in environments where the path to success depends on doing what bosses say they want become immune to the defects of the organization, its goals, and ways of implementing their aims. So people end up working for thugs, knowing they are thugs and knowing that their work is not for anything good, but they do it anyway. Maybe partly because they don't see alternatives, fear quitting and starting over somewhere else, and generally accept pretty shitty Faustian bargains for their labor. I've seen it in a corporate setting, which I couldn’t abide after realizing how dangerous the quicksand was to personal integrity, and quit. My colleagues were stunned that I'd leave such a 'cushy' situation and wondered where I thought I'd find something as 'rewarding'….certainly only meaning in terms of $$$. People know Trump is lying…they expect it, but for weird reasons of their own, they give it and many of his other transgressions a pass. It's a mass psychosis, in my view, but so is the 'loyalty' to other entities and their people about which/whom similar bad things have been exposed…churches, companies, rulers, sports teams?
Your assessment mirrors one which Mike S has espoused: If you grow up doing what the white man at the front of the church tells you to do, it is natural and normal for you to do what you're told to do by the white guy in charge of whatever you're in, be it church, employment, or home.
Sounds familiar….as a recovering Catholic for 60:years, I partly attribute my deprogramming from parochial school and CDC ( Christian Doctrine Classes) to my father who was a bit of an iconoclast. His pithy assessments of the people of the cloth sort of gave permission to toss it all into the rubbish heap. The rejection would have happened sooner but for trying to assuage Mama.
I am so grateful to have grown up in a “none” household….goes back to my wonderful granny born in 1898 (and extended to her progeny—now 5 generations); open-hearted, open-minded & lack of dogma of any kind….well, except to be kind, do good, pay attention, lend a hand when needed & carry your own weight as long as you are able—oh, and garden! As a kid—junior high years—went w/ friends a couple of times to their church services & although pleasant enough, it didn’t stick (would have rather been at the beach body surfing!).
Sometimes I think that people who work in environments where the path to success depends on doing what bosses say they want become immune to the defects of the organization, its goals, and ways of implementing their aims. So people end up working for thugs, knowing they are thugs and knowing that their work is not for anything good, but they do it anyway. Maybe partly because they don't see alternatives, fear quitting and starting over somewhere else, and generally accept pretty shitty Faustian bargains for their labor. I've seen it in a corporate setting, which I couldn’t abide after realizing how dangerous the quicksand was to personal integrity, and quit. My colleagues were stunned that I'd leave such a 'cushy' situation and wondered where I thought I'd find something as 'rewarding'….certainly only meaning in terms of $$$. People know Trump is lying…they expect it, but for weird reasons of their own, they give it and many of his other transgressions a pass. It's a mass psychosis, in my view, but so is the 'loyalty' to other entities and their people about which/whom similar bad things have been exposed…churches, companies, rulers, sports teams?
Your assessment mirrors one which Mike S has espoused: If you grow up doing what the white man at the front of the church tells you to do, it is natural and normal for you to do what you're told to do by the white guy in charge of whatever you're in, be it church, employment, or home.
Sounds familiar….as a recovering Catholic for 60:years, I partly attribute my deprogramming from parochial school and CDC ( Christian Doctrine Classes) to my father who was a bit of an iconoclast. His pithy assessments of the people of the cloth sort of gave permission to toss it all into the rubbish heap. The rejection would have happened sooner but for trying to assuage Mama.
I am so grateful to have grown up in a “none” household….goes back to my wonderful granny born in 1898 (and extended to her progeny—now 5 generations); open-hearted, open-minded & lack of dogma of any kind….well, except to be kind, do good, pay attention, lend a hand when needed & carry your own weight as long as you are able—oh, and garden! As a kid—junior high years—went w/ friends a couple of times to their church services & although pleasant enough, it didn’t stick (would have rather been at the beach body surfing!).