Academia is full of cogs in the leftist machine who are forced to think the exact same way or they risk being ostracized or even fired.
No one is permitted to challenge their retarded ideas.
I used to work in a STEM field in academia.
Every Leadership role in every department was filled entirely by Jewish men and women with a few token positions given to Woke White women, woke Black women, woke Latino women and woke Asian women.
No individual was allowed to dissent against their progressive propaganda.
This is essentially what Biden's whole administration is likely going to be.
STEM management in Woke Capital is becoming the same way, except there's more Whites and Asians. But they have to be self-hating.
The engineers I've known who have gone into management start out sane and simply adopt Woke progressivism as a persona they can "turn on" when they need to and "turn off" when they're among friends. But over time they internalize it, and to the extent they dissent at all it's of the spineless "I agree with what they're trying to do but they take it too far" variety which provides no meaningful opposition.
I suggest using old technology simply as a survival tactic, for those who eg. want to drive a car with functional brakes or a fly in a commercial airliner with an expertly designed fly by wire system instead of one thrown together by "engineers" making $8/hr.
I stand up -- vocally -- but people don't really understand why; and they think I sound like a crazy person when I try to explain it.
I think one of the reasons my colleagues change is that they don't think the change is bad: they think it's simply a natural extension of the standard American liberal culture in which they were raised. So even when they intuit that something is "wrong" they lack the means of being able to meaningfully challenge that view or offer an alternative. "I agree with what they're trying to do but they take it too far" is them being honest.
The problem is that many people like your colleagues are sadly normies who still fall for the media indoctrination.
They think any change is good as long as the people in power tell them so.
The nightmare is that the people who understand the danger are scared to speak up due to cancel culture while the normies foolishly believe that any change borne out of progressivism is good.
Academia is full of cogs in the leftist machine who are forced to think the exact same way or they risk being ostracized or even fired.
No one is permitted to challenge their retarded ideas.
I used to work in a STEM field in academia.
Every Leadership role in every department was filled entirely by Jewish men and women with a few token positions given to Woke White women, woke Black women, woke Latino women and woke Asian women.
No individual was allowed to dissent against their progressive propaganda.
This is essentially what Biden's whole administration is likely going to be.
This nation is so fucked.
STEM management in Woke Capital is becoming the same way, except there's more Whites and Asians. But they have to be self-hating.
The engineers I've known who have gone into management start out sane and simply adopt Woke progressivism as a persona they can "turn on" when they need to and "turn off" when they're among friends. But over time they internalize it, and to the extent they dissent at all it's of the spineless "I agree with what they're trying to do but they take it too far" variety which provides no meaningful opposition.
Read old books, and use old technology.
You hit the nail on the head.
Woke Human Resources departments have forced this cancer on even technical background STEM managers in every major corporation.
Reading old books and using old tech is good but it does not even help stop the woke behemoth's march forward.
If everyone retreats or silently accepts wokeness, they will only continue to get more brazen.
Thanks to pervasiveness of cancel culture, no one stands up.
It is an utter nightmare.
I suggest using old technology simply as a survival tactic, for those who eg. want to drive a car with functional brakes or a fly in a commercial airliner with an expertly designed fly by wire system instead of one thrown together by "engineers" making $8/hr.
I stand up -- vocally -- but people don't really understand why; and they think I sound like a crazy person when I try to explain it.
I think one of the reasons my colleagues change is that they don't think the change is bad: they think it's simply a natural extension of the standard American liberal culture in which they were raised. So even when they intuit that something is "wrong" they lack the means of being able to meaningfully challenge that view or offer an alternative. "I agree with what they're trying to do but they take it too far" is them being honest.
That is the nightmare, not the cancel culture.
The problem is that many people like your colleagues are sadly normies who still fall for the media indoctrination.
They think any change is good as long as the people in power tell them so.
The nightmare is that the people who understand the danger are scared to speak up due to cancel culture while the normies foolishly believe that any change borne out of progressivism is good.
You just explained Bryan Lunduke perfectly.