So this might be kind of a longer post. I was thinking a lot about corporate indoctrination. How we all have to pretend to buy into this bullshit that we are really enthused about what our companies are doing to people. I was at the dog park today and I ran into someone who I could tell was very high up on the Amazon chain based upon the expensive designer dog that she was trotting around. She has always been very nice and as conversations at the dog park usually go, pleasant and easy to about dogs and the weather. She had mentioned she worked for Amazon so I thought I would take the opportunity to ask her what she thought of the unionization victory in Staten Island. It was amazing to me how her entire demeanor changed and what was once a personable pleasant person became a very detached and robotic tirade on how Amazon should not be held as the scapegoat for the ills of capitalism. She went on and on about how Amazon is really trying to make things right for the workers and she has never seen anything bad happen at a factory. I sort of expected that she would say some bullshit crap about how Amazon isn’t the demon that the media portrays it as, but what struck me as most interesting was that she didn’t even really seem to believe all the nonsense that she was spouting about how wonderful Amazon is. She had to sort of disassociate in this weird way from reality to actually go on and on about it in that way. Her eyes became vacant and she just kept repeating nonsensical things over and over peppered with all that empty corporate jargon. It was absolutely fascinating. It reminded me of all the fake shit we all have to do in pretending to be overly enthused about our jobs and being as in authentic as possible. I find that to be the most exhausting part of capitalism. Having to pretend to be enthused and be constantly acting inauthentically at work.