dinner with two plates and one mouth …
I`ve always made a point of being honest and upfront with people I deal with. Weather on a momentary basis or long term. In the work enviornment you really have to be who you are. You spend fourty hours a week with these other people. They will get to know exactly who you are sooner than you like. Believe me. Of course as we know there is the ever turbulent and encompassing office drama. Or the water-cooler culture as it has come to be known here in the u$. Anyways point I`m getting to. We are all human beings (read – human doings) walking around on the planet living out our lives. Generally most people want the same things. Material comfort and someone special in their lives. Our thoughts and feelings are important and relevant to us etc. With the understanding that we are all generally the same, what makes anyone think that they actually have any real authority over anyone ? Does an illusory title really make anyone better ? Or actually give them some sort of power of control ? This is truly the veil of maya excercising its infulence. Or as I like to say self-dillusionment. Of course as the standard threats of force and violence and the gun at the head arguments come spewing forth like a typhoon of vomit, I can only say get a grip on yourself. Your ‘power’ only exists in a stationary building in a log book making note of it. Yet somehow people feel transformed that they are somehow different, or above others. So next time your standing in line at the bank, or grocery store and the old man with the head of cabbage and prune juice is holding up ‘progress’, try telling him that you are sir captain supreme-o muckety muck and he just needs to get out of the way, see how he responds. A great way to illustrate how influencial and permanent ‘power’ really is, is like this. Go to the beach, and grab a fistfull of sand. Squeeze your hand tighter, interesting thing happens, as you squeeze tighter the grains of sand fall between your fingers faster. There is a demonstration of power. Useless and ulitmately meaningless. A fatal flaw of our society is this, we are not based on mutual cooperation, instead coercive force.
S.
