
I'm not handling my work transition.
I'm relieved it's Friday. Now I'm gonna go to sleep to keep from bursting.
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Sometimes I get worried about my job. I think what am I going to do to survive if I lose it? Then I think well I got my social security check retirement coming in every month I can always survive on that. Then I think what happens if the government goes bust and I get an IOU instead of a check next month."they say I was a rebel till I reached the age of five
it was then that I got caught up in the struggle to survive"
--Peggy Wilson, waitress Sambo's restaurant, Atascadero California 1976
the workplace can make infinite demand, so too can we make those same demands of our self......i like this introspective look at how we eternally question whether we are good enough, if we measure up, a most stressful endeavor that us humans seem to be unable to avoid....perhaps the message here is, do your best, considering all the variables of each new day.....and fuck the rest.....
SAW
Alls I know is I can't believe in religion any more. Religion is what got me, not the Bible, just the churches, the pastors, the herds. I don't think it has anything to do with a personal God, everyone is entitled to have their God. The problem is, people tend to 'herd', they act together regardless of if they completely agree internally with what scene is happening. A herd is very dangerous. A herd has painful outcomes, and people aren't following their guts any longer or their God if they follow a leader and unity. That is what I'm against. I'll not follow, I'll go on gut and I need to make my gut as loud as possible so I can hear it even during chaos.
What happened first during The Battle at Wounded Knee and before hand? What happened first during the Salem witch trials? What happened first during the Battles littering history? Or during any intolerance? Some person gets loud, confident and takes a leadership role. Then most people are naturally too weak to decide for their ownselves, so they group together and go with the loud leader, he seems sure, he has a mission, a plan, a hate, a desire, he's burning with it and they will go too, because they know no better to listen internally, they never practiced what their own voices sound like. It's scary to on the spot if not practiced, not lived prior.
It's sad and I don't want to fall into that trap myself.
I'll make myself better conditioned to the sound of my own guts, and if a little girl runs out holding a white flag, I'll not look to someone else to decide for me what to react. I'll react how I need to and if I die doing so, or make a faulty move, it's not going to be someone else's plan or idea or fault. I'll own it. If I can be that woman, then I'll have lived the best life with my life that I could.
* That image of her holding the white flag just tears me up. It brought back a lot of emotion from reading the book. My apologies if I sounded defensive towards you, I wasn't at all, just was burning mad how people just allow themselves to follow the moment, no matter how cruel, hatred obvious or what have ya is going on cause they're so robotic or weak. As if I was ready to address those people. I'm being emotional. I'm sorry.
Wednesday, 04 April 2007
More on Eric Hoffer: The True Believer Revisited
Introduction: The events of 9/11/01 brought a renewed interest in Hoffer. This article by Tim Madigan examines why Hoffer's thought is of enduring interest.
The True Believer Revisited
Tim Madigan on September 11th and a longshoreman who understood the psychology of mass movements.
Hoffer is very perceptive in his criticisms, and much of what he has to say is relevant to the present situation. For instance, he points out that we often imitate what we hate. "Every mass movement", he writes, "shapes itself after its own specific demon." And it can then become the very demon it denounces. Christianity in the Middle Ages became so obsessed with devils and witchcraft that it justified mass slaughter and the very sorts of atrocities one would normally attribute to satanic forces. The Jacobins who overthrew the French Monarchy because of its tyranny ended up becoming far greater tyrants themselves, and unleashed The Great Terror upon the populace. The Bolsheviks in Russia denounced capitalism yet amassed a monopoly, and Lenin took over the Czar’s secret police apparatus without a moment’s hesitation.
http://bartoncii.xanga.com/581648156/mo ... revisited/
Yes, a trick of the eye. I likes that.She was hauling ass out of there.
we often imitate what we hate. "Every mass movement"
Absolutely.sheep in wolves clothing.
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