for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.
You're not a bad person, not really, but telling the truth at your current company tends to get people fired.
And you can't afford to be fired. You're thirty seven, you've got three kids, you've got a big house to pay for, your wife would leave you within nanoseconds if the cashflow ever dried up, and it's been well over over a decade since a cute, random girl in the street looked at you with anything even faintly resembling a sparkle in her eye.
Society only needs you because they need the product your company makes. Lose the job and you are no longer needed. Without your job you're just a mere stain.
So lying equals survival.
You have to lie because you have no other ideas about how not to be killed. How not to lose everything.
Lying replaced ideas long ago. Lying replaced great sex long ago. Lying relaced your marriage long ago. Lying replaced joy long ago.
Your lies became the painless cancer.
Yes, I've read your resume. Very impressive.
Look, I already said I'd get back to you next week. gapingvoid
I have often found myself at odds with the world of OFFICIALDOM. The wise "this is how things are done" language and 'ways' of the media, our politicians, our economists, our rich, our priests, our teachers, and our parents have been built around me for 47 years, like glass houses - containing my thoughts, constraining my actions.
I totally 'get' that OFFICIALDOM is there to meet our basic needs by creating order, and providing security and prosperity. I also know that OFFICIALDOM works pretty well [for those who matter, anyway]. But there is a price to pay:
You see, OFFICIALDOM totally fails to meet our higher order needs = the need to be creative; the need to love and be love; the need to achieve self-actualisation, which comes through being both self-expressed and self-determined.
OFFICIALDOM makes us conform because of, and through its ideology = all of our thoughts and actions shall be politically correct, socially responsible, legally prudent, culturally acceptable, economically viable, and mentally rational. We have, in effect, 1984 in 2008.
Living a life of full self-expression and self-determination in a world of OFFICIALDOM is a mighty difficult thing to do. I reckon it all starts in the mind. How you see things is how things are. Which is why i created this blog.
This blog is dedicated to throwing stones at some of the glass houses that contain our thoughts and constrain our actions. Enjoy :)