Seth_Goldin comments on Rationality quotes: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 01 March 2010 10:28:08AM 8 points [-]

The reason you feel most comfortable with a job (unless, like me, you're in the minority - a job would destroy my psyche) is that you've been brainwashed by many years of school, socialization and practice. I pick the word brainwashed carefully, because it's more than training or acclimation. It's something that's been taught to you by people who needed you to believe it was the way things are supposed to be.

-- Seth Godin

Comment author: Seth_Goldin 01 March 2010 04:58:04PM 5 points [-]

This sounds very Foucauldian, almost straight out of Discipline and Punish.

I'm not Seth Godin, by the way.