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This works on a micro level in companies where groupthink has taken hold, but also at a macro level where our media exalts sycophancy. Privilege for mouthing or
by motohagiography 3y ago
This works on a micro level in companies where groupthink has taken hold, but also at a macro level where our media exalts sycophancy. Privilege for mouthing orthodoxies describes "the banality of evil," well. It was a reference to people who thought in slogans and recieved clichés, which dulled them to the consequences of what they were actually doing.
Coining new phrases to respond to the present may shed some light for younger people who lack perspective, but it doesn't capture the gravity of what we're watching happen. There are precedents with strong predictive power for all of this.
- asow92 3y ago> This works on a micro level in companies where groupthink has taken hold, As someone who feels this daily, appealing to politeness as the essay suggests often does help. You're basically living in different versions reality, which is frustrating, but that doesn't mean you can't find some common ground and work together. After-all, it's just a job, and we shouldn't take it personally.