If you've spent any time inside an American corporation lately, you've seen the executives abusing their young employees.
I refer, of course, to the damage being done by hotshot leaders bent on manufacturing cool corporate cultures.
They're victimizing the youths they recruit, in the same way European colonizers did many natives in the South Pacific during the years before World War II.
Unprepared for their encounter with wealthy and powerful white men―just as many of today's college grads are―those natives took refuge in bizarre religious cults anthropologists later called "cargo cults."
Although differing in local details, these cults all advanced one central prophesy: the world is about to experience a terrible cataclysm, after which dead ancestors will reappear and usher in paradise, by giving all the survivors electrical appliances.
Today's executives aren't manufacturing corporate cultures, but corporate cargo cults.
The natives, given their pitiful wages, can only pray the appliances will arrive soon.
