Coming Soon: The Organization Man
I have posted all the final videos of my series covering Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking in which I focused on the theme of social conformity and the downsides of pop-psychology and self-help. Although I will be exploring another book first in the same vein (in two parts), Confidence: How Much You Really Need and How to Get It by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, I have already begun a more in-depth series (length to be determined) on The Organization Man by William Whyte which I already looked at briefly in relation to Cain’s Quiet.
Whyte’s work, published in 1956, also explores the topic of social conformity, or in brief, how the middle manager, and the middle class itself to a large extent, bent the knee to the ever-growing corporation and ever-expanding bureaucracy, wholeheartedly believing that they had their and their children’s best interests in mind. Most importantly, however, the book offers key insight into how we got to where we are today with our crony capitalism, corporatization, and the commodification and bureaucratization of everything.


































































































