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Workers' needs are completely met by the institution, so they have no need to leave company headquarters, except to sleep. The company creates such a positive atmosphere it utterly absorbs its employees: the employees are even encouraged to do independent research on projects of personal interest, which minimizes individuals' drive to create new companies to explore their own ideas. All new ideas are funneled back to the company. In Foucault's schema of power, it seems almost impossible to resist organizational pressures: to resist on the terms set by the institution...

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To return to the example of the rebellious teen: for a teen to resist sexually repressive parents by being very sexually promiscuous only confirms the parent's assertion that sexuality is the most important part of an individual's identity. Individuals who wish to retain a non-institutional identity can only strive to take a critical and distanced attitude to the laws and rules created by organizations and institutions: neither uncritically rebelling nor uncritically accepting the terms of the world around them.

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