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well another way to look at it is that there is already a fundamentalist organizational religion that most people adhere to, they're just unaware of being part
by dingbat 11y ago
well another way to look at it is that there is already a fundamentalist organizational religion that most people adhere to, they're just unaware of being part of one already
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- kzhahou 11y agoPlease explain.
- some1else 11y agoPlease identify this "fundamentalist organizational religion" a bit clearer. Did you mean capitalism, b-school, emergent hierarchical organizations.. tribes?
- honeybooboo123 11y agoMy guess would be "statism". It could be defined as the belief that political power should be used to fix societal problems, even though they were caused by it in the first place.
- dingbat 11y agoits pretty simple, there is obviously a very ingrained faith in the standard organizational structure w/ management, staff. its so obvious that is how things should be (its "fundamental"), that its difficult to consider that belief is possibly also a matter of faith, even if that standard structure was itself emergent in some respects. its possible the commenter i was responding to was referring more to the "rah rah" aspect of zappos as a whole, rather than religious zeal re: this new organizational concept. those are different things in my mind, also both are exhibited by the directive "to all employees: read this book and indicate you have done so". anyway it isnt a comment on whether or not the zappos idea itself is useful and/or just another fad coated with new terminology (i have no idea). just that when you can identify someone else as engaging in religious zealotry, its fun to consider what that zealotry is being compared to, which probably turns out to be something like "everybody knows its supposed to be this way", aka. some sorta implicit religion.