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I wonder if weird corporate humiliation rituals have evolved partially to take advantage of human capacity to develop coping mechanisms. If I make you sing the walm@rt song in front of your peers every day before your shift, you are left with a conundrum...
Either fully recognize that you are making a fool out of yourself for your employer every morning, or spin a little fabrication up: “Its just what you do for your job, its not a big deal, everyone else does it too.”
Gradually little humiliating experiences stack up, your excuses become more convincing to you, and before long maybe its YOU that& #39;s leading the song. Once you hit that level, its too painful to consider that all those years of singing an embarrassing song were a waste of time.
Instead you begin to BELIEVE in the song, its the only option that saves you from the pain of facing this reality: you wasted years of your life voluntarily humiliating yourself.
But here& #39;s the twist, I worry that this isn& #39;t just a corporate tool, but that politicians create “believers” in this manner as well.
If you sang “High Hopes” for Pete Buttigieg a few times its hard to sober up and face what an ass you made of yourself. And don& #39;t worry, your humiliation is immortal, we& #39;re all filming you, this footage will look great for the campaign. https://twitter.com/MatthewBevan/status/1195975381762789376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1195975381762789376%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2019%2Fnov%2F18%2Fmayor-pete-high-hopes-dance-us-election">https://twitter.com/MatthewBe...
Perhaps a political movement has found enabling its adherents to microdose humiliation profitable. What if providing opportunity for followers to engage in more and more embarrassing acts ensures that eventually there& #39;s no room for later questioning of your actions.
Maybe one day you find yourself dancing the Walm@rt dance, and the choice you face is this: recognize that you spent years accumulating a mountain of humiliating experiences, or just close your eyes and keep on dancing....
