Exercising authority
over someone that isn't your child, is demoralizing. Authority is corrupting.
Its corrupting because without the ego cancelling affect of parental love,
having authority over people inflates your ego and forces the one under
authority to condescend.
No grown man wants
to have another grown man tell him what to do to make a living. No grown woman
wants another grown woman to lord over her. In this capitalist society, that's
exactly what we were being asked to do.
There are archetypes
in the human psyche. One of them is Parent and Child. That's something that
goes back millennia. There were no bosses in prehistoric times. There were
alphas, but that was only if you choose to live in a collective. You could opt
out. The only way to opt out in capitalism is to become a capitalist. Start a
business, work for yourself, but then you become part of the problem.
When we force people
into these artificial positions because of Authority, one group acts like
parents and the other acts like children. Why? Because authority over adults is
unnatural. So they rebel. If you rebel against authority you're acting like a rebellious
child. The authority figure has to bring you back in line, like a parent. Both
exercises are degrading and unseemly.
We need managers
because we can't easily make a living doing what we love. We can do it, but
there's a period when the necessities of life may be in doubt and everybody
can't wade through that period successfully.
What I'm advocating
is the abolition of capitalism, money and wage slavery. Collectives of people
should ban together and build the necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter,
education and healthcare for the masses. Thereby creating leisure for human being
to explore what they are passionate about and pursue it.
To quote Oscar Wilde
"the government will make what is useful. The individual will make what is
beautiful.." There are articles all over the net about "flat"
companies. Companies without managers, they just hire talented, passionate people
to do a job they love and let them do it. How wonderful that must be. How like
the first state of man it must have been.
Authority is a
symptom of disease. That disease is called fear. We, as a society are afraid of
each other. We are afraid of being taken advantage of, afraid of asking for
help, afraid of being labeled. The anonymity of the internet, seems to
eliminate some of that angst.
I hate telling
people what to do, but love organizing people around a task to be completed. I
just asked that you do your piece without my consistently checking up on you.
The institution leans on you it that, but I know it distort my personality and
character. Try as a I might. I'd be a fool to think I'm not tainted by
Authority. Maybe I can write myself into a career as a writer with bosses and
without becoming a boss. It sucks.
