corporation spirituality (--), nytimes article, graphic metaphor (200 words)
I don't know if any of y'all are looking to feel suffused in horror as a journalist breezily tries to sell you on corporations attempting to further colonize the minds of their workers using dismembered pieces of religious ritual, but if y'all are, NY Times has got your back: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/remote-work-spiritual-consultants.html
It feels very much like one of the creepy strains of thought that would surface periodically in Less Wrong spaces before we finally broke free of that particular font of white technocratic garbage. It feels very much like what they would call "wireheading": injecting feelings and desires into people's minds, one's own or others, while bypassing their mind's assessments of their actual circumstances.
It's pretty awful.
Also, here's probably the most telling paragraph:
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And: It’s hard to exhort workers to give their professional activities transcendental meaning when, at the same time, those workers can be terminated. “It can be done badly, and when done badly it can cause harm,” Ms. Thurston said. “For example, ‘How can we be in deep community if I can fire you?’”
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re: corporation spirituality (--), nytimes article, graphic metaphor (200 words)
@packbat Funny, I've been doing the Opposite for Years, trying to help folks find transcendence in the things Capitalism can't sell you.
What they're doing up there is Literally Trying for a Cult of Work. They're less aware of what happens when they bring Religious practices to the Workplace.
And how it can Really trample on people's freedom of Religion.
re: cult of work re: corporation spirituality (--), nytimes article, graphic metaphor (200 words)
@Motodrachen yeah, there's definitely a cultish feel to all of this. there was a cultish feel to Less Wrong, too.
it's a really bad scene all around.
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