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As predicted by Nietzsche. For a great modern explainer, check out Beyond Reason, by Jordan Peterson. Rule VI, abandon ideology covers this.

deadite 5y ago
Not at all ironic that you're being downvoted in this thread.
andrewmcwatters 5y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted for this. It's something he explicitly described. You see it in the form of "corporate values." Corporations don't have values, people have values, and the subcontext of corporate values is that leadership at those companies make their own values.[1][2] When you hear about a corporation espousing "values," they're practicing corporate Nietzscheism. Most of the time, they're not doing it because they knowingly follow Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, but rather that they parrot the philosophy from other corporate examples... as predicted by Nietzsche. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaluation_of_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaluation_of_values [2]: https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Nietzsche_and_Values https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Nietzsche_and_Values
- opportune 5y ago
  What's interesting about stated/explicit corporate values is they are almost always based on what you'd call "slave morality", like being good, traditionally moral participants. That's because those values are for underlings and PR for the general public, though set by the top. But of course, they are actually run under the master morality of doing what is expedient to achieve the goal (usually money). > Most of the time, they're not doing it because they knowingly follow Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, but rather that they parrot the philosophy from other corporate examples... as predicted by Nietzsche. It could also be that in the modern world, most powerful institutions don't associate themselves with religion directly (like pre-modern power structures, kingdoms and empires, etc) so they have no default values to fall back on. Large corporations transcend nations and cultures, so cannot even fall back on those specific cultural values. Thus they must make their own, not necessarily to mimick others, but because having a large organization with no publicly stated values is simply confusing to us hairless apes.

deadite 5y ago

Not at all ironic that you're being downvoted in this thread.

andrewmcwatters 5y ago

I don't know why you were downvoted for this. It's something he explicitly described. You see it in the form of "corporate values." Corporations don't have values, people have values, and the subcontext of corporate values is that leadership at those companies make their own values.[1][2] When you hear about a corporation espousing "values," they're practicing corporate Nietzscheism. Most of the time, they're not doing it because they knowingly follow Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, but rather that they parrot the philosophy from other corporate examples... as predicted by Nietzsche. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaluation_of_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaluation_of_values [2]: https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Nietzsche_and_Values https://philosophynow.org/issues/29/Nietzsche_and_Values

opportune 5y ago
What's interesting about stated/explicit corporate values is they are almost always based on what you'd call "slave morality", like being good, traditionally moral participants. That's because those values are for underlings and PR for the general public, though set by the top. But of course, they are actually run under the master morality of doing what is expedient to achieve the goal (usually money). > Most of the time, they're not doing it because they knowingly follow Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, but rather that they parrot the philosophy from other corporate examples... as predicted by Nietzsche. It could also be that in the modern world, most powerful institutions don't associate themselves with religion directly (like pre-modern power structures, kingdoms and empires, etc) so they have no default values to fall back on. Large corporations transcend nations and cultures, so cannot even fall back on those specific cultural values. Thus they must make their own, not necessarily to mimick others, but because having a large organization with no publicly stated values is simply confusing to us hairless apes.