Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Social conditioning is how Enron pulled off its multi-year scam on it’s own employees and the world at large. They even show film clips from a famous obedience experiment.

I just watched this for the second time, having seen it years ago when it first came out on TV. I was still in my blue pill phase back then. It made a much bigger impact this time.

While we’re at it, Enron could not have done any of this without the cooperation &/or actual collusion of state and federal governments. So, while we are bowing to our corporate masters, we are also bowing to government bureaucracies.

True story.

I knew an accountant who worked at Enron. She had a really cushy job with great incentives to stay. She had a sense that something was wrong, nothing she could put her finger on but real enough; so she quit and got a less cushy job elsewhere. The signs were there, like the documentary tells us. You only have to look for them — and throw off your social conditioning that compels you to do what the boss orders.

Throw off your social conditioning. So simple & obvious, so difficult.

As a great philosophizer once said, “I was looking for a job when I found this one. Kiss my ass!”