Your feelings about this answer to why DEI doesn't work

"I get it, it comes up in my management and education degrees. Systems create cycles of executive function -and parameters within the habits, understandings etc to serve the premises of those executive functions- to replicate those same systems. Including ideological systems, which become compounded when those ideological systems are created to justify the closed systems of ignorance inherent to the limits of your cognitive systems."

Is it just me, or is this a word salad to obscure meaning. Or am I just dumb?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Translated into English, it has no meaning, or not one of any significance.

The first two sentences show the Degree course teaches that:

1) A business exists to serve its management, not the management serving the business.

2) Ignorance is not only bliss but an advantage; success coming from being no cleverer than one should be as long as one knows all the Right Words and never uses plain language.

3) The more flowery and opaque the jargon, the better. The good manager knows no-one will ask him or her the meaning, if there is one, because the enquirer will fear being thought dim.

and,

4) The purpose of a management degree is not to teach running a trade or service, but how to seem Ever So Clever to mask Point 1) above.

(Reminds me a bit of that 1980s "mission statement" fad.)

Anyway, "systems" do not create themselves. It is Managers - people - who create the "systems".

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While the third sentence (starting "Including ideological systems..") seems only to say, "Ideologues are ignorant and stupid".

I don't know if I still have it, but some forty or fifty years ago I collected a wonderful piece of industrial folk-humour that really showed up that sort of nonsense. It was a table of blocks of verbose clauses that could be assembled to form Very Impressive but totally meaningless "management-ese".

Therealsteve · 31-35, M

@ArishMell " The purpose of a management degree is not to teach running a trade or service, but how to seem Ever So Clever to mask"

That is one of the purposes of the degree. I'm the OP with the management and education degree. Some of my work involves teaching people about running organizations.

Therealsteve · 31-35, M

@ArishMell Also, you realise that a manager is a system, as well?