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| Phil Scott |
 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:38 pm |
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There is the road south.
That is we are born into a culture and humanity that in order
to operate casually.... tends to rationalize, (that is 'make
rational', or make sensible) of whatever is happening .... as
a matter of course.
Failure to rationalize will make one different than the others
in any culture, the cultural immune system will then attempt
to eliminate the person to one degree or the other.
In doing this we routinely rationalize almost pure insanity.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' is directly on this
range of issues. It is about a trip down the rabbit hole....
where people pour tea upside down and drink from the
saucer.... and rationalize it with properly reserved English
and great emphasis on the position of ones little finger while
tipping the cup.
We go blind to the insanity even as a culture becomes
completely dysfunctional. The more dysfunctional the
situation the blinder we get to the insanity of it.
In that range we only value dysfunctional behavior, the insane
rage... drinking and eating complete toxins we see as
justified and a good and often necessary thing.
Those with an ever so faintly vicious sort of insanity
decimate ourselves by generating a wide range of brain
destroying hormones and other chemistry. There is a god
after all.
The perfect control mechanism, self eradication of the
terminally nasty. There are similar mechanisms seen with the
merely compromised.
Any rationalization of any mess, bogus life style, ignorant
corporate mind set etc... creates insanity to that degree in
the person.... that corrupted brain function takes them out...
slowly or not so slowly. Masked by the ambulatory condition
of the victim.
We are not too bright as a culture...it seems as a race that
indeed we are absolute imbeciles. We tend to make short
sighted judgments, and on the basis of outward appearances
only.
We do not consider the train wreck until after it happens.
People not so well off financially... left unsupported ...
die off fast when they become dysfunctional.
Rich people, or a well off civilization can afford to indulge
in dysfunctional behavior and run it completely into the
ditch, the corporation, the nation and currently on a
planetary scale as we have chosen to poison our food sources
on land and in the sea.
Individuals operating down these rabbit holes either go
quietly nutz to avoid the disharmony, thereby fitting in
perfectly and are not seen as even faintly incapacitated....or
these reach a stress peak wherein they revolt and see the mess
for what it is. .. about one in a 10,000 or so approaches that
range of insight, maybe its one in millions that sees the
situation clearly.
Now thats progress.
A person should ask himself at every turn 'what is completely
nutz about this'. On each detailed aspect, then look for a
way to eliminate or side step that aspect.
One could draft sane policy, then follow it.
That would work.
Divining sanity however .... in an insane, already co-opted
world becomes an issue. How does one judge cleanliness in a
cesspool.
Cleanliness can only be judged outside of that cesspool ...and
in juxtaposition to it.
Fortunately we have some good examples of sane living
scattered around our historical past that can be useful.
Not included in the historical reference
" ... and of course destroy them utterly if possible"... or...
'Kill the infidels' from other quarters... or "greed is good"
from the movies.
How in that case would one sterilize his policy of this
ambient insanity? Would it be the details, having a separate
policy for every detail of life? Would that be it?
Solutions.
Or could one look at the larger construct... all the good and
viable things, happy and relaxed and constructive things..
decent things. Situations that advance to extend life and
insight. Then simply hold these up as a measuring stick as
he or she goes through life.
In that context, errors and corruption etc can be seen as
stressors, co-optable as a challenge to bring even more
strength.
By the way, none of this is rocket science... most car repair
shops some run by high school drop outs for instance have
known this for a century...
.... Oten a half nutz, ill informed, negatively predisposed
customer brings his or her car in for repair.
.. the repair facility operator, just smiles, as he is having a
good day personally.... and hands the customer a release and
estimate form obligating him to pay when the job is done next
week or next year or next century.... and detailing what is
under warranty and what isn't... then the customer signs, and
pays....
....or.. the customer is allowed to leave the property ever so
gracefully...or not so gracefully with a flat tire. muffler
dragging and jerky transmission......... dangling from the
ceiling....
whatever. It is still a nice day for the repair shop
operator... the banker, contractor. Its done with
operating policy.
Published policy is perhaps a primary route to both sanity and
viability.
I think we will see the day when resumes include tactfully or
not so tactfully worded policy statements. I am fying mine
these days to feel out the market. Mine describes the sorts
of situations where I am viable (pro-active, self managed,
responsible, leading edge etc), and notes that other
situations or less senior situations are not a fit.
To make that work though, one would have to keep it on the
front burner at all times... anounced, bold in the contract...
then repeated often.... or get coopted into the morrass headed
south.
Everything has a life cycle.
All living things, plants, animals, humanity...their pathogens
and corporations.... have life cycles. These tend to
corrupt over time, become dysfunctional and collapse. The
individual life cycle and collective cycle of life on earth
for instance... even the galaxies as they eventually collapse
into their black holes. The life cycle ends.
Before the life cycle ends it corrupts. Co-opting that is
fatal.
In the final stages of any culture it will be a persons
personal policy, made utterly explicit, worn on their sleeves,
adhered to.... that will allow them to remain functional.. or
better, a joyously happy contributing member to life broadly
and the human race.
Phil Scott |
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