A long day...
posted by Tinh Man | July 17, 2009
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IcerocketAfter only one week at my new job I'm already on thin ice, mainly because I find it increasingly difficult to cope with the society in which I was reared. Signs are everywhere around me that the capitalist system is reaching its end, and I highly anticipate its demise, yet while it is still in place I have no idea how to continue to live within it. So the dilemma I face is incredibly difficult, because as much as I would like to believe that there is a better way, i lack the proper insight to find a solution, for my own individual struggle, and for the struggle of the rest of humanity. My general manager told me today that if I don't learn all the proper procedures within a week, my kitchen manager will be reprimanded for it. How could this possibly be a positive workplace, when you not only have to worry about your own performance but the rest of your co-workers as well? I just hope people everyhwere are as fed-up as I am and take the initiative to find a better way. While probing Jose Arguelles' perspective on time I found myself most intrigued by his view on our rhythm of work and rest being completely out of alignment with natural and cosmological cycles of time, and through my own experiences with psylocibyn in the past, I have sensed this malady in myself and society as well, but lacked the training to see it for what it was.
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— Jul 17, 2009
You should really move back to the caribbean. I was looking at some of our pictures (which i intend to burn for you, unless you already have copies) yesterday and noticed how raptutrous you were. all the time. then moving onto Colorado pictures, it is clear that more is missing than your tan.
Endure and consider your education.
I still have that book "The Geography of Time." It's a shame its so poorly written because it actually makes some great points,
On another note, It appears that neither one of us is worthy of the Abyssinians as my copy of the cd has vanished as well-but not before i put it on my laptop-ha!
the feeling you describe is a big one for me also
— Jul 18, 2009
Feeling kind of stuck in the middle. Not completely justified or unjustified. Not convinced that you can afford to conform or to not conform. Trying to avoid certain kinds of stress, but finding them unavoidable. Wanting to focus on and be part of a change for a better life for everyone, yet finding most people still completely attached to the system despite its being in apparent death throws. Not wanting to be a catastrophist, but in earnest thinking - who knows? Wondering why you did come to the planet and wondering just what kind of risk that ultimately compels. And time . . . ticking away, ticking away . . . and what the hell do you need to show for that anyway? Or something like that - I thought I could relate. Pardon me if I'm stating something else entirely.
Yeah, I think that makes you very normal
— Jul 22, 2009
I think you should honor your discomfort in this world, and recognize it for what it is, sanity. To not feel this discord would be the sure sign of insanity. I also don't know how to deal. I take it one day at a time, find a way to get through my work day. Truth is, I love to work, I love to stretch my mind and body in some great effort, but find this other-dictated determination of where my effort and creativity must be directed incredibly dehumanizing. I run dry and struggle for ways to cope, and yet somehow I do.
I also lack the vision of what would come to replace this system. It is so clear this system, whatever it really is, is not aligned with what we truly are, nor is it designed to take us to our emergence of self. All I can say is hang in there brother, I don't know if better days are really coming, but I think they are. Perhaps it is only for us to imagine it and then it will be.
i hear ya...
— Jul 23, 2009
reading your blog i couldn't help but chuckle because i am SO familiar with that feeling.
getting a job because you need the dough but not seeing enough value to actually care about what they want you to do.
i loved the part about positive workplace environment.
jobs are a freakin joke. we should all be chilling in the woods eating fruit.
