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Huh. I guess this depends if you see a deliberately designed ritual as something hostile, or something thoughtful. How is this different from using clever office aesthetics to evoke a work culture? The mystical, like art, is good for the mind. Just, like, don’t join a cult.
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That comparison is off. Evironmental aesthetics don’t actively try to make you do things. A better comparison is to workplace wellness programs that give you health insurance premium breaks for wearing pedometers and walking 10,000 steps. Or cultish sales events.
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There’s a ton of emergent stuff that’s great. It’s the artifice here that’s the problem, not the effect. And ymmv but there can definitely be costs to refusing to participate in such things, for eg if the big boss is very into it.