“______ Boot Camp” seems to be a reasonably common construction, and I’ve always understood it to refer simply to intensive training in some specialized topic, without being especially evocative of the more sinister aspects of its military namesake.
(Though if accepting the full metaphor means we’re taking it as a given that militaries are cults (indeed prototypical of cults), I’ll take it!)
“______ Boot Camp” seems to be a reasonably common construction, and I’ve always understood it to refer simply to intensive training in some specialized topic, without being especially evocative of the more sinister aspects of its military namesake.
(Though if accepting the full metaphor means we’re taking it as a given that militaries are cults (indeed prototypical of cults), I’ll take it!)