{"id":4994,"date":"2021-12-16T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4994"},"modified":"2021-12-16T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T05:44:03","slug":"why-woke-organizations-all-sound-the-same-city-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4994","title":{"rendered":"Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same | City Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/why-woke-organizations-all-sound-the-same\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/why-woke-organizations-all-sound-the-same.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Stone Age magical thinking:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">Based on his study of a Stone Age culture in New Guinea, Bronis\u0142aw Malinowski argued that when people face uncertainty, they turn to magic to propitiate the capricious spirits responsible for their incomprehensible misfortune. Being ever-so-sophisticated people who attended business school, corporate executives don\u2019t hire shamans to replenish fisheries or to avoid a storm. Instead, they bring in consultants to help the firm embrace best practices. But as Charles Fain Lehman explains, John Meyer and Brian Rowan\u2019s 1977 paper in the American Journal of Sociology, \u201cInstitutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony,\u201d argues that this distinction is a farce\u2014that much behavior as practiced by modern corporations, NGOs, and government agencies is not about technical efficacy that rationally orients means to ends but ritual, vaguely intended to elicit good fortune by achieving legitimacy with the firm\u2019s \u201cenvironment.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><span>So &#8220;wokeism&#8221; is the new Stone Age &#8220;magical thinking.&#8221; I&#8217;m reminded of a quote from <\/span><span>Walden<\/span><span> by Henry David Thoreau:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\"><span>&#8220;The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler\u2019s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\">He was talking about clothing fashions but it works for social fashions too. Just substitute &#8216;government&#8217; for Paris and &#8216;corporations&#8217; for America.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/why-woke-organizations-all-sound-the-same\">Why Woke Organizations All Sound the Same | City Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Stone Age magical thinking: Based on his study of a Stone Age culture in New Guinea, Bronis\u0142aw Malinowski argued that when people face uncertainty, they turn to magic to propitiate the capricious spirits responsible for their incomprehensible misfortune. 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