Many of the stories we get told and tell ourselves are often orthogonal to reality.
With complicit naïveté it's us then who keep these stories alive so we can cope with the most profound dissonances for all the glorious incentives and self-imagery.
The price we pay for it is still pernicious to the greater environment and to the person "keeping the dream alive".
A more explicit scenario: Neither your bosses nor the investors or most of your colleagues might have drunken the kool-aid for real. The likelihood of you being just a happy yet replaceable cog in a make-believe-machine is very high.
Wear and tear is inverse proportional to cog size.
There is no real risk of burnout at the higher levels of the oligarchy.
With complicit naïveté it's us then who keep these stories alive so we can cope with the most profound dissonances for all the glorious incentives and self-imagery.
The price we pay for it is still pernicious to the greater environment and to the person "keeping the dream alive".
A more explicit scenario: Neither your bosses nor the investors or most of your colleagues might have drunken the kool-aid for real. The likelihood of you being just a happy yet replaceable cog in a make-believe-machine is very high.
Wear and tear is inverse proportional to cog size.
There is no real risk of burnout at the higher levels of the oligarchy.