Managerial corporate culture treats open skepticism as a pathological attitude to be corrected

Evidence

The Komissar, who has joined our group, tells me, in the nicest possible way of course, that I “seemed to be sceptical and might like to think about my attitude.” … Aha! So being sceptical is pathological now. Rude. I geddit. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2341

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on the managerial/procedural discipline of speech — this is a live micro-example of power expressed through politeness. — connects to: Moral doubts can be converted into private discomfort within organizations — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3911; Corporate epistemic authority silences the people it constructs by branding them ignorant — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 221; Surveying only subjective attitudes let management read worker contentment into conflict-prone factories.

Broader Connections

• Moral doubts can be converted into private discomfort within organizations #expands (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3911
• Corporate epistemic authority silences the people it constructs by branding them ignorant #expands (0.78) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 221
• Surveying only subjective attitudes let management read worker contentment into conflict-prone factories. #exemplifies (0.75)