You draw a good analogy about the occupation, but it's hard to tell without specifics whether you are Huck Finn complaining about having to wear shoes or the author writing about Huck Finn.
We all have to put up with a lot of bullshit to eke out a living. We wear theatrical masks. Large chunks of our social interactions are based on what amount to lies.
Fair enough, I am not ignorant to the fact that complexity in systems usually provokes a sort of streamlined "lingua franca" of speech, presentation, and behavior. What is concerning is that it has never been so massively uniform across institutions. I am sure a vacuum cleaner salesman had to put up with some bullshit affectations to fit in at their company, but I doubt those same affectations were also required at their kid's grade school, their Spades club, and their bible study groups. It is concerning when a monocultural wall forms across every facet of life; people have to have some places where they can be themselves, and as those are more and more limited, more people are going to flock to less and less savory venues to vent their true selves, which are doubtless going to be more "true" (i.e. extreme) by the time they speak them.
You draw a good analogy about the occupation, but it's hard to tell without specifics whether you are Huck Finn complaining about having to wear shoes or the author writing about Huck Finn.
We all have to put up with a lot of bullshit to eke out a living. We wear theatrical masks. Large chunks of our social interactions are based on what amount to lies.
Is there anything new under the sun?
Fair enough, I am not ignorant to the fact that complexity in systems usually provokes a sort of streamlined "lingua franca" of speech, presentation, and behavior. What is concerning is that it has never been so massively uniform across institutions. I am sure a vacuum cleaner salesman had to put up with some bullshit affectations to fit in at their company, but I doubt those same affectations were also required at their kid's grade school, their Spades club, and their bible study groups. It is concerning when a monocultural wall forms across every facet of life; people have to have some places where they can be themselves, and as those are more and more limited, more people are going to flock to less and less savory venues to vent their true selves, which are doubtless going to be more "true" (i.e. extreme) by the time they speak them.