{"id":4232,"date":"2019-06-02T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:44:19","slug":"yes-its-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"Yes, It’s a Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many cults have their members dress distinctively in public. Here’s one stereotypical example from the 1960’s:<\/p>\n

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How is that fundamentally different from this (snapped recently on the ferry one afternoon):<\/p>\n

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Answer: it’s not. Not so far as I can tell. Both expect you to turn over your life to the cult. With cult religions, it’s rituals and faith-based beliefs in things that cannot be proven. With cult employers, it’s the cult of high technology.<\/p>\n

Both cults expect you to devote your life to the cult, wearing the clothing the cult provides, and devoting your “free” time to activities the cult approves of, generally ones that support the cult’s mission.<\/p>\n

And I think that, in addition to my age, is really hurting my employability. I have my lifelong interests, and I’m not interested in putting them on the back burner in the name of prioritizing any cult’s interests (no offense, geeks, but role playing games and science fiction simply don’t interest me). I’ve developed my own idiosyncratic sense of personal style, and I’m not interested in changing it in order to become a human billboard for some business. I regard social networking as a baleful influence on society, and participate in it only reluctantly, under an assumed name. I firmly believe that what I choose to do in my unpaid hours is none of any employer’s business.<\/p>\n

If you value your personal liberty, you don’t belong in a cult of any kind. It’s just that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many cults have their members dress distinctively in public. Here’s one stereotypical example from the 1960’s: How is that fundamentally different from this (snapped recently on the ferry one afternoon): Answer: it’s not. Not so far as I can tell. Both expect you to turn over your life to the cult. With cult religions, it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum","category-personal","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}