Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Re:Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valle... by xtian on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:56AM (#17054086)

> But I do think there's an inconsistency wrt the wide latitude we give the armed forces. To the extent that such inconsistency is acceptable, I'm curious as to why.

The armed forces are specifically looking to replace any creative or independent thinking with responsiveness to the chain of command and willingness to commit acts of violence. Those are exceptional requirements which are generally in direct conflict with the productive functioning of any other organization.

I do think it’s worth inquiring into why we’ve created a society which necessitates such broad-scale weaponization of human beings, however.

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Re:Star Performer Created a ‘Toxic Culture’ at Silicon Valle... by ModernMech on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17054348)

> responsiveness to the chain of command and willingness to commit acts of violence

There is even a term for it: Followership. Something I had never even heard of until I looked into joining ROTC, and realized they weren't looking for future leaders, but robots they could program.

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