Corporate culture and it's problems
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It's part of the overall trend of the Infantilization of Western society, another example is adults wanting to go to Disney World and commercials for adults featuring childish or cartoon themes, etc. Good write up about it here
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
Have the Archive
https://archive.ph/Xwx3b
Claude Levi Strauss had this big problem where any culture he looked at had to be inferior to him. He couldn't imagine an anthropologist studying mall culture of the 80's. Also, a country that creates so many awful cars is not in a position to say that other cultures trying to make them better is bad.
I enjoyed the article, and agree with it, but there are niggling bits that make me want to analyze it harder.
Also, Levi Strauss' 'criticism' of American culture is pretty infantile in itself. Baseball is a very cerebral game; Americans actually worked on the 'toy-cars' with their hands; and hobbies like hunting or HAM radio are not at all childish.
I'm embarrassed that I used to read that sort of stuff -- you know, when I was infantile.