> nobody's allowed to question it otherwise it's civil flame war. With enough years in this industry I'm starting to see how much of the culture is just "cargo

> nobody's allowed to question it otherwise it's civil flame war. With enough years in this industry I'm starting to see how much of the culture is just "cargo cult Silicone[sic] Valley!" -- People are doing things just because the latest/greatest unicorn did it that way, and frequently there is a form of Zen/Chan disregard of meaning or learnings from the past. "Move fast and break things" often plays out as "Disregard knowledge and act like there wont be consequences" . I frequently see threads/posts on HN by experienced people laughing that "we've known this since the 70s" in reference to The Mythical Man Month, or other bits from Computer Science, and yet most managers think they know better than decades of industry experience.