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OK, my understanding is to take your comparison as more of an Office Space style critique of the modern corporation then.
by dundarious 5y ago
OK, my understanding is to take your comparison as more of an Office Space style critique of the modern corporation then.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> to take your comparison as more of an Office Space style critique of the modern corporation then. ... Scarily accurate? Spot on? A sad but correct reading of how companies actually operate?
- dundarious 5y agoYes, all of that, but also relatively trivial in comparison to the use of these tactics in operations like COINTELPRO. Almost everyone on HN works in an office (myself included), but I think it's a bit shallow and limiting (and ultimately dangerous) if the primary way we interact with such materials is to strip them of their actual context, and immediately apply them to our mundane individual experience, thinking things like, "yeah that's just like I told my boss, I was like, 'uhhh, this meeting could have been an email?... ;)'". (That's a caricature of their opinion, but it was funny to me, and still expresses what I mean about its relative shallowness).