Corporate religions

From: Phineas <pnarco@worldnet.att.REMOVETHIScom>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 5:05 AM

Started reading No Logo by Naomi Klein...

Yeah, the corporations, the big ones at least, are on their way to
making themselves into religions. Even working at some of these
places, I'll bet, is like joining some kind of mind-control cult. So
anyway, these companies strive to sell MEANING, not products really.
The product is secondary to the meaning that's associated with the
product, so these things that you buy are almost religious objects,
you get a certain feeling from seeing the logo, like you get a certain
feeling when you look at the cross, or the star of David. People after
all, are hungry for MEANING. That's how mankind orients themselves in
the world. You can endure anything mentally if it means something.
People in concentration camps made it th rough day by day because they
told themselves their survival would mean they could tell others of
what happened. So meaning is very important. But it's for sale now.
Just like religion has it for sale. Televangelists, or the Catholic
Church selling favors from God.

FUCK THAT SHIT!!

But I wonder if we fast forward thousands of years in the future, if
there will be 'Fundamentalist Cokists' and 'Fundamentalist
Pepsityrians' having world wars over their beliefs. Or if the
followers of Colonol Sanders and the followers of "Jack" from Jack in
the Box, will be killing each other. The 'meaning' behind the products
would have evolved into an actual religion by then.

Sigh

Fucking humans.

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From: fnord <lurkfnordy@bigpond.com>

Thank you.

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Due for an upgrade very, very soon.

Most of it sucks now.

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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

>Fucking humans.

I think the Chevy vs. Ford people are already involved in regular
border skirmishes.

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From: wbarwell@starbase.neosoft.com (William Barwell)

In article <3bd301d4.43066786@News.CIS.DFN.DE>,
Joe Cosby <joecosby@mindspring.com> wrote:

>I think the Chevy vs. Ford people are already involved in regular
>border skirmishes.

Some big chain type businesses, Home Depot for example,
have little weekly pep rallies for their employees that
resemble Moonie type rallies. Instead of declaring
all for Rev. Moon, you declare your heartfelt fealty
for the ways and designs of the holy company.

They are cults.

Business cults.

Amway was one of the more notable ones.
Home Depot is another.
Allstate Insurance for some time became almost psychotic
when upper managment was hornswoggled into buying into
a Scientology front managment consultant firm that
introduced Hubbard Managment Technology(tm).

I bet there are others.

I am sure people here have worked at some company or the other
that has practiced these mind control techniques on
hapless employees.

Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

A while back I proposed a new religion that runs
counter to this (and one, I feel, that can be
embraced by SubGenii without any conflict of
interest).

I never did come up with a satisfactory name
for this new religion, however, so am open to
suggestions.

It's basic principle is simple: leaders, of all
kinds, be they political or corporate or cultural
leaders, are automatically imbued with POWER.
When they are elected, promoted, or howsoever they
gravitate to a position of leadership, they are
given supernatural, arcane and violent POWER.
The greater their position, rank, or number of
followers, the more POWERFUL they become.

However, with POWER comes MADNESS. A city
councilman is just psychiatrically disturbed,
melancholy, perverse or disoriented; while the
President of the United States is a mind-wrenched
PSYCHOTIC MONSTER capable of ANYTHING horrible,
awful and inhuman. Dog catchers might just
masturbate in public, but US Senators eat brains
liberally sprinkled with chocolate sauce while
humming Barry Manilow tunes. Business leaders
and managers fit into a similar model.

The lowest order of leader, policemen of various
stripes, are like semi-mindless drones working
for the POWERFUL madmen. Their only power is
brute force.

Obeisance in this religion is simple: one must
honor such creatures when in their presence or
under their sway; but generally you must avoid
them, for they are MAD. Everything they say or
do is deranged, so should not be taken seriously.
It is best to never become a target for their
LUST.

In a way, they are as the forces of nature. To
be ignored unless threatening, and to be complained
about constantly.

--
*
Moesha seizes a fresh slice of chef Elise's
greasy fish quiche and mischievously mashes
and squishes it on the Joseph piece of the
fascist police chief's cheezy French crèche.
*
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Subject: Re: Corporate religions
From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>

On 21 Oct 2001. Phineas wrote:
> But I wonder if we fast forward thousands of years
> in the future, if there will be 'Fundamentalist
> Cokists' and 'Fundamentalist Pepsityrians' having
> world wars over their beliefs. Or if the followers
> of Colonol Sanders and the followers of "Jack" from
> Jack in the Box, will be killing each other. The
> 'meaning' behind the products would have evolved
> into an actual religion by then.

Visions of Leonardo's "Last Supper" with McDonaldland
characters.

William Gibson's *Virtual Light* features an offshoot
of Christianity called Fallonites who live in a trailer
park viewing television reruns as manifestations of the
Lord. Plausible enough, but moreso if it focused the
obsession on one particular series, or shows centering
around a certain actor, actress, director, producer, or
screenwriter. The various Allenite sects passionately
divided over heretical interpretations of "Voyage to
the Bottom of the Sea," Ser 1; Ep. 5.
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From: Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>

> I bet there are others.

Debra "Magnificat Meal Movement" Geileskey calling
upon her followers become Herbalife distributors
earlier this year...
http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/01/may/27/story_6.html
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

My favorite was the Mary Kay Cosmetics people. I never worked for them
but my friend did. It was about as cult-like as I've ever heard of
in a company, along the line of Amway but with the focus on the cult
personality of Mary Kay Ashe. They even used the color pink as their
main motif, with pink cadilacs being the symbol of success in this
Dallas company.

Then there's The SubGenius Foundation, a cult corporation so small that
the cult leaders have to take turns brainwashing each other.

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Original file name: Corporate religions - converted on Thursday, 20 December 2001, 03:30