Interview gauntlets create impostor syndrome because everyone knows the limits of measurement. The weapon “Maybe you don’t deserve to be here.” is always in waiting.
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The concept of meritocracy doesn’t survive the specialist -> generalist transition. That is, group belonging and meritocracy are at odds.
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Belonging derives power from fate rather than human constructed barriers. Think families and bloodlines. You can’t choose, you just have to deal with it.
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Trying to create belonging doesn’t work because the very act creates impostor syndrome and its entire drama of masks and roles. It’s like “trying” to be yourself.
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Interviews fail when the stance of every individual is “If only there were more people like me, then things would be better.” They succeed when the question is “Can this person do the job?”
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The former is a test for generalists and the latter for specialists. The latter being difficult because it relies on standardized jobs and job tasks which change too fast nowadays to be measured effectively.
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The end result is an obsession with fitting in with no real role models. Just cyclic mimetic behavior. Be the Best Version of Yourself.
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Nothing actually happens in such a group because all the enegy is internally directed trying to keep the group together. There’s no leftover energy to move with agency. The knotted ball just rolls forwards on whatever gradient it was created on.
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When it “succeeds”, all it does is cancerously grow. Domination is a violent form of trying to be a big happy family. A subpart detached from the whole that requires conquest to self-realize.
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That’s the truly terrible part of impostor syndrome and all the threats of exclusion. It drives a desire for fame and status. It forces people to Be! rather than just Be. A self-enforcing shouting match of escalating voices and hoarse throats while the child cries in a corner.
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