Re: Cults

From: Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:41:00 -0000

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "ellenm112001"
<ellenm1_at_a...> wrote:
> Regarding 1) The members speak a slightly different lingo -
>
> we were just discussing this yesterday: cults will often appropriate
> normal words and re-define them to their own purposes, but will also
appropriate
> scientific terms and misappropriate them to non-scientific and
non-rational uses, while
> benefitting from the "scientific" sound of them.
>

Yep, yep, yep - and not just cults but all through the pseudo-science
community (see "Energy").

> Regarding the point about a company being sort of like a cult,
having
> suffered through a few workshops having to do with various corporate
employee
> "bonding"techniques I think many companies are taking a page
straight from what works
> for cults.
>
> A manager I know once came to a meeting with a drawing of a pig -
she
> had been at a management meeting where they were all supposed to
draw pigs and the
> way you drew one would tell you something about yourself. She looked
miserable.
>
> Of course everyone had to do it or face peer pressure...or worse!
>
[snip]

I had a group picnic recently where we had games - real stupid
infantile games like who could keep a yo-yo going the longest. They
(the managers) got real upset because I chose not to play. Poor team
spirit they whined. Funny, though, when I started a water balloon toss
the managers (*ahem*) declined to participate. Can't get the rolex
wet...

If I'm going to participate in an infantile sport for my company it
damn sure better involve explosives or caustic substances. Then we'll
see who has team spirit! Wimps!!! "Ooooh! a drop of water landed on my
$200 shirt. I better go home for the rest of the day in my new
Porsche..."

--H.G.
Received on 2004-08-04 12:41:04