So, our bright and have-nothing-better-to-do T.I. morons decided to selectively block the "sites we were abusing of too much". Smurf got his Twitter cut off, and I've got my blogger access cut off. Yeah, totally moronic, I know. And it ain't as if I had been blogging all that, much, or as if by blocking the blogger I will stop blogging. Dude, that ain't gonna happen, as you can see from this post. However, with this utterly shortsighted move, all blogs on blogger have been cut out, which basically means that all work related blogs are also out of reach. Smooth, jackass, real smooth. I guess the perception of "work" is greatly distorted by the antiquated, maquila-minded people who have access to technology and actually believe that everything other than a typing machine is, implicitly, fun. Must admit, people like this do bring to mind Frederick Winslow Taylor, who said (according to some textbooks of mine) "the man who works with brut iron must be as brute as the iron". How does it relate? Well, brut iron is hammered. This control-employees thing basically works pretty much as hammering: it's a really stupid job, focused only on "taking away" and "push into shape", instead of constructively look at the matter, focus on results and step in there where goals are not reached. Thus....
Good thing that those of us used to work our brains, can come around with enough creative solutions to save these setbacks. Yeah, it kinda takes corporative-time out of our schedules, but hey! Happy workers produce better results!
On other matters, I've been mentally developping this "Theory of the Definition of the Self", which I started explaing in an early post, finding more and more cases where this general theory applies. Quite an exciting excersize, I must add.
I was talking with this friend of mine about an acquintance of us and we were discussing this person's "profile", so to say. Sadly, it's the case of this childish person, with a limited view of self and surroundings. Naturally we are talking about a grown person with a typical background for someone of that particular age range. Job, home, car, pet, family. The basics a person must fulfill at a given age to be considered pretty much "normal", if not "functional". Job is good, home is fine, car is fine, pet is ok, family is ok. However, as we step aside from the social formalities and peer into the self, the troubles bubble up like foam from a freshly shaken root beer can.
The person in question has little contact with the surroundings, often ignoring and thus mistreating unintentionally others. The reaction towards the harm caused is basically either a mocking laugher or a shrug. Inappropiate comments fly up and down and the working relationship with colleagues wilts and breaks down quite quickly. Remarks such as "sloppy work", "inflexible standing points, even when faced with mistakes", "much bitching, little producing", "no foreseeing", "disregard of the work of others, prior or subsequent". Remarks flow also around private spheres such as disregard of group decisions, quarrels about being left out, uncalled rude remarks, disregard of the circumstances, meddling with other people's lives, and so on.
Upon review it becomes clear that this is a typical case of a person that hasn't reached emotional maturity, which is quite accentuated by the overly emphasizing of past times and former "good times", which by this age should have been long lived out. I mean, there's no harm in remembering the good old days when we were all kids and played on the street with our fellows, biking up and down, adventuring into the forest or the nearby coffee plantations, but when someone mentions this at least every other day deeping into long, detailed recounting of what it was like, regardless of telling the same story over and over, even though people is long ago ignoring it, tells stuff about the psyche. People reviving constantly good memories, particular periods of their lives are usually locked in them, unable to move on and face their present. Biology may have made the body age with the times, but the mind is stuck for some reason in a given point, refusing to move from it, refusing to learn and evolve past that point.
"Trauma" is a way to give an explanation to the phenomenon. I choose to refuse this explanation, as it usually comes with the included assuption that the harm has been dealt by an external party. Now a days this six letter word is the fencing sword wiggled around by parents and kids to justify quarreling with teachers and why the let kids do whatever they want, and in the case of the kids, to get away with murder and be let do whatever stupid thing they have picked up from their buddies or the TV. "Trauma" strips people from the tools and ways to do something, but give them an awesome escape route away from responsability. So, instead of pinning the emotional evolutionary stagnation on the XXIst Century's Escape Goat, I rather turn to the relationship with the self, the perception and definition of the self to find the obstacles to the natural development of the psyche and the behavioral patterns.
What can make a person to stop his or her own emotional evolution? This is a question I'm so far not prepared to answer properly, as it must be noticed, I have never studied psychology, though I have been sent to quite a fair share of shrinks and psychiatrist in my life. My initial guess is that some kind of dislike of the self, or a fear rooted around facing the unknown, a sort of Peter Pan or Dorian Gray "complex", keeps people from moving on, from allowing themselves take the responsability of the knowledge coming along with the evolution of the self, the new responsabilities sorted upon could be cause for the halt in the natural growing.
Oh well, I would continue, but I'm out of time...
This remains open for sequel.
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