It's easy to focus in on the misery in this world. There is simply so much of it. How much am I responsible for war, hungry and homelessness? How does everyone else not notice or care? Are their mean comments a defensive mechanism and misplaced anger at the closest target? I find it hard to understand that a human can be so cruel to another and searching for reasonable answer, otherwise, all these actions are filed under being "evil" which is an expanding file as I write.
Destructive emotions seem to rule the political world. Anger, hate, resentment are accepted as motivation in the Western world. The workplace is a microcosim of the greater structures above it. When the Big Boss is a dictator, all the little despots below him/her try to top the institutional arrogance. Police brutality of the population is directly connected to the dismissal of concerns by politicians and those in place to control them. The system/workplace is also intimidated by the monsters they create, and the cycle of inhumanity continues. Does anyone with a job today not deal with a petty bully ruining the day, driving you to sleeplessness? Does anyone else recognize the terror this particular person causes and is willing to help neutralize or straighten them out? Certainly not the Boss, all Boss' jobs are to get someone else to do their work. One less dirty duty for them to do and one more a spiritually bankrupt worker is glad to do thinking he may someday get a promotion for the effort.
"They don't put nice guys in charge", I was told as a youngster. I shouldn't be surprised by this statement, I simply don't see the productive sense in it. It seems the management class, highly educated to be the biggest bastards possible, have anyone left to manage. What's left of the workplace are lesser educated bastards who are not so subtle and cuttthroat in their attitude. Nice guys have all been eliminated, and more than likely, they were the ones who liked their jobs and did most of the actual work. Nice guys don't plot and plan and gossip and conspire to advance, therefore, they are seen as easy targets for the ambitious to step on, climbing the ladder of "success". It's not my myopic opinion, the workplace is getting much nastier.
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