when “sounds like a cult” hits too close to home
I wrote a banger of a post on LinkedIn this morning that is at 7,000 engagements and counting less than 10 hours after I posted it.
Well, for me, that’s a lot of views for one day.
It was a post about how I’m seeing design executives get canned in recent months.
They are getting canned because they won’t go along to get along with companies that are seeing dollar signs if they join the current techno-fascist surveillance-othering-cruelty complex we have going on in the United States.
And most of the time it’s kind of a surprise — because they’ve been doing what they were hired to do. Until they and their pesky principles became too much of a problem. That, at least, it what it looks like from here.
Someone commented on my post. They wrote about some of the wilder aspects of what seems to be fueling the firing of people trying to hold any line at all about ethics.
Idly I wondered if there might be a Sounds Like a Cult”episode about this.
Turns out there are quite a few, actually, and it’s… it’s not good.
It’s not a good feeling to be part of a major sector of an economy that used to be thought of as “the future,” but is now morphing into a space that multiple episodes of a show about cults can get great material from.
It’s like Jung’s shadow self on steroids — the darkest impulses, the most solipsistic beliefs, the great grasping greed of it all. Spreading like wildfire by people emboldened to “get theirs.”
The darkness, the shadows have always been there because everything about the internet is an expression of the current state of humanity. But that stuff was tucked away, isolated, hidden.
Now it’s like my dog’s worst farts. Slowly permeating everything.
It’s too true to be funny any more. Too close to home.
