Unmasking Insubordination
There are so many interesting questions here and the author seems to have a laser-like focus on the material fact that he feels insubordination has occured and that this is a problem, which doesn&#x27;t really require more than a sentence or so of explanation.<p>For example, in training, why is it that the soldiers agree to polish their boots, iron their uniforms etcetera - e.g. generally perform a ton of ancillary tasks to the actual job?<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s solely because someone said so. There&#x27;s a level of respect for the ritual that comes from somewhere. Like, they might think that today they can&#x27;t be arsed with polishing the boots, but that it&#x27;s a point of pride to do it. Or there&#x27;s a competitive aspect with the others.<p>Maybe it actually is just because the commander will bark at them otherwise - but that just cycles around to the motivation to the commander.<p>Once you figure that out, does that illustrate that there&#x27;s something unique about mask wearing?<p>Like, you have this empirical data that soldiers will literally run into a battlefield and dodge landmines and all the rest of it, you&#x27;ve created a framework in which that&#x27;s an order they&#x27;ll obey.<p>I dunno, it feels like the article is really light on the &quot;whys&quot;. The thing your mental model told you should happen is not happening - so try to understand it?<p>Try to figure out why people don&#x27;t want to do this thing?