The most likely outcome of this for me would be that I would quit and go backpacking. :)
The employees shut inside coffins
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I know what it's for, and I can appreciate that aspect. I just know it's been used on me and had that effect.
Steinbeck (in Grapes of Wrath?) had a character recite the 5 levels of moral development. It went something like this: 1) I don't want to get in trouble 2) I want to please someone 3) I want to follow the rules 4) I want to help other people and the highest level, 5) I have a personal moral code, and I abide by it He explained these as levels we reach with age - entering school at age 5 or 6 we first hide from troubl…
I think it's not just age, but the wealth and prosperity that can go along with it. It's easier to have a moral code and look down on those with less when your own needs and wants are secure.
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#63Is anyone in South Korea able to comment on why there's such a high sucide rate? According two Wikipedia, it's ranked number #2 in the world and double the rate of sucide of America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide...
One theory is Durkheim's suicide hypothesis: South Korea's industrial development has ripped apart the traditional society (already badly damaged by the country's partition and the Korean War), and social norms and society have not yet consolidated on new adaptive ways https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=durkheim+suicide+south+...
If so, we can hope that SK will gradually improve, especially if they can figure out how to corral the out-of-control signaling arms-race which is their educational system. (Although this also predicts bad news for China in the coming decades.)
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#64If I worked for such company, I would probably feel better INSIDE the coffin.
My sentiment exactly - at least inside the coffin in that exercise you're temporarily isolated from the craziness outside.
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#65I wonder if there is any connection to the scene in MASH.
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#66They can also reuse the coffins for the people they kick out, but this time nail them shut.
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#67My Korean mom mentions dying all the time. It's not unusual for her to manage to come out with "being born...is a license to die!" (complete with pointed finger) in the middle of a conversation. One of her favorite superlatives is "Oh, it was so [adjective] I was going to die!" She'd also often use the equivalent of, "would it have killed you? No, you should kill it!" I have no idea if this is a Korean thing, or if it's just my mom being weird. I grew up in a place where we had to drive 50 miles to be with other asians.
In my creole ex-girlfriend's family, you never mentioned death. Ever. To do so was to tempt fate.
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#68"This person doesn't even have limbs and they learned to swim. And you can't deal with your own stupid little problems?" Not exactly a confidence builder. It just guilts you back into living.
This person doesn't even have limbs and they learned to swim.
Let's call this person "Bob". It's my impression that since torsos are buoyant it would be basically impossible for Bob to sink. So now Bob just needs to wriggle in such a fashion as to move in some direction and occasionally get his head above water to take a breath.
Of the many challenges that a limbless person faces, swimming would have to be among the easiest. Certainly easier than e.g. donning a swimsuit.
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#69Before looking at the article I thought it was a new office layout. No more cube farms, no more open layout, now we put people into little work coffins.
Not far from truth. Not far at all for many of us. PS: Some good ole Pink Floyd music would suit this as well.
Some psychedelics would probably make the experience far more effective as well.
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#70Did any of you wannabe fast-readers LOL over the misread title?