What Are Lumon's Nine Core Principles in 'Severance'?

Severance's MDR team in front of the Lumon logo

Depending on the company, sometimes working for a big company may feel like being in a cult, with workers having to cater to their bosses' egos and perform work that isn't all that meaningful or that they don't even understand. Severance draws a lot from this idea, and Lumon Industries is the ultimate corporate leviathan in that sense.

The Nine Core Principles are an essential part of Lumon company culture because they set up what Kier calls"corporate affection" in the Compliance Handbook. According to Kier,"Romantic love may burn with a more luminous flame, but it is gone far more quickly than corporate affection, which persists even through generations.

Severance uses many religious allegories through Lumon. Teachings like the Nine Core Principles are meant to mirror core principles of Christianity, for example. The Seven Deadly Sins all have their opposites, the Seven Virtues: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility. There are also the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

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