Anyone else see the Severance TV show?

[Scott]

A friend of mine recommended it to me a while back. At first, I was highly skeptical- I've never been interested in a show about the work environment in the past and doubted that this one would be an exception. But I finally decided to give it a shot- in the first episode, I liked the bit of office humour. But soon enough, I began to think of how the idea of severing your personal life and your work life already happens to some extent (all these "non disclosure" agreements) and that this show was just taking things to their possible limits to make some very powerful points about what can happen when important information is known only be a select few. It's the old adage: Who watches the watchers? By the end of the first season, I was clearly hooked and I binge watched the last few episodes of the second season at some ungodly hour because I simply had to know how it ended. Anyway, here's the trailer to the first season:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQP4VVuyrY&ab_channel=AppleTV


I really liked the opening sequence for the first and second seasons as well. Here's the first season's opening:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmS3m0OG-Ug&ab_channel=extraweg
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[EdwinA]

Hollywood has re-discovered the 1950's and 1960's again. In other words, they aren't creative enough to come up with anything new.

The Organization Man - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Whyte's approach​

While employed by Fortune Magazine, Whyte did extensive interviews with the CEOs of major American corporations such as General Electric and Ford.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organization_Man#cite_note-mills1956-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> A central tenet of the book is that average Americans subscribed to a collectivist ethic rather than to the prevailing notion of rugged individualism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O...ote-nationalreviewwhycorporateleadersbecame-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> A key point made was that people became convinced that organizations and groups could make better decisions than individuals, and thus serving an organization became logically preferable to advancing one's individual creativity. Whyte felt this was counterfactual and listed a number of examples of how individual work and creativity can produce better outcomes than collectivist processes. He observed that this system led to risk-averse executives who faced no consequences and could expect jobs for life as long as they made no egregious missteps. He also thought that everyone should have more freedom.

Marxists and right wingers are both corporatist ideologues, which is the end results of both their ideologies are distinctions without a difference to the mass of people.

 

[Scott]

Hollywood has re-discovered the 1950's and 1960's again. In other words, they aren't creative enough to come up with anything new.

The Organization Man - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Whyte's approach​

While employed by Fortune Magazine, Whyte did extensive interviews with the CEOs of major American corporations such as General Electric and Ford.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organization_Man#cite_note-mills1956-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> A central tenet of the book is that average Americans subscribed to a collectivist ethic rather than to the prevailing notion of rugged individualism.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O...ote-nationalreviewwhycorporateleadersbecame-3"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a> A key point made was that people became convinced that organizations and groups could make better decisions than individuals, and thus serving an organization became logically preferable to advancing one's individual creativity. Whyte felt this was counterfactual and listed a number of examples of how individual work and creativity can produce better outcomes than collectivist processes. He observed that this system led to risk-averse executives who faced no consequences and could expect jobs for life as long as they made no egregious missteps. He also thought that everyone should have more freedom.

Marxists and right wingers are both corporatist ideologues, which is the end results of both their ideologies are distinctions without a difference to the mass of people.

I personally think that Severance -is- rather original in its idea. The last American TV series that got me so hooked as the second season of Severance was the first season of the new Westworld series. I watched all the other Westworld seasons and thought they were all quite good, but I think the first one was the best. I also liked the Altered Carbon series (on Netflix), but I don't think it moved me as much as season 2 of Severance or first season of Westworld.