The cult is aka “hotel california”
We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
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#92The cult is aka “hotel california”
Plenty of room
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you had said Jira you might have gotten a better response. Agile is just the methodology, it's the implementation that causes suffering.
agile is synonymous with bad agile. If you really are doing good agile as a company you need to say how to be believed.
Step 1) Switch to Azure DevOps, or literally anything else, from Jira
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Enjoy your good agile.
Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
#94Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
#95I was waiting for the part that would make it clear what was being satirized, and it never came? I feel like I'm missing context?
Read carefully and compare the related sentences. For example: > They make you depend solely on others within the community for your every need... Is followed by: > We have partnerships with organizations that can connect you to schooling, work, housing, and medical care...
HN needs spoiler tags. But since I'm shadow banned.
There is an answer, I found it outside of the story.
But this a a good hint.
I incorrectly chose the wrong X from these lines. It does narrow it down. The "buttons" threw me. Still not sure what they represent.
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#96This is a pointless article that baits the reader into thinking there is a point, as evidenced by the fact that you can read many comments here of people trying to extract meaning out of it and not find anything that is actually profound and not incredibly overwrought.
And yet over a hundred people have upvoted it so far. Perhaps the ambiguity is the point.
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#97This is a pointless article that baits the reader into thinking there is a point, as evidenced by the fact that you can read many comments here of people trying to extract meaning out of it and not find anything that is actually profound and not incredibly overwrought.
And yet over a hundred people have upvoted it so far. Perhaps the ambiguity is the point.
We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
Re: We are sorry to inform you that you are in a cult
#98A lot of people here seem to be offended by this essay because of the literal definition of the term "cult" and start looking for potential cults they may be part of. I think they are mistaken. To me, this essay clearly speaks about the maladaptive conditioning we receive from our families and society in general during childhood and adolescence which causes us to suppress our feelings and authentic selves and treat t…
That's where my mind went as well - in fact, it reminded me of Guy Debord:
> In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
So cult == community? As a bit of a libertarian, this struck me as anti-Statist (i.e. modern secular states are basically cults)
Is there no libertarian community? In the sense of a group who think similarly and are suspicious and somewhat hostile to those who think differently?
My impression is that libertarian communities, similarly to Mensa, have more hostility between members than you might want to see in a well-functioning community. There are libertarian communities, but they are less community-like than the term would lead you to expect.
That might be directly related to the kind of person who joins a libertarian community (as seems to be the case with Mensa), or it might be an artifact of the fact that women hate libertarianism.
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#100I was waiting for the part that would make it clear what was being satirized, and it never came? I feel like I'm missing context?
I think people are reading too far into it. It's just a joke...
The point is that they're telling the subject of the story (in second person so it's addressed to "you") that you're in a cult and they're going to rehabilitate you - but as you read on, you might notice that the rehabilitation is describing, you guessed it, a cult!
It's not actually making a comment that everybody is actually in institutions that are like cults or anything, that's just part of the (satirical) brainwashing that the cult is using to bring people in.