Ego is the Agent of Chaos

I'm on a non JitterBook project where for whatever reason, each person feels the need to restate the other person's insight in their own words, thus making it "their own insight".

In restating the objective, the baton of thought is passed to each person in the meeting, allowing everyone to clarify each other's comments, explaining the same freaking thing, but again from their perspective as if to say, "my take on the idea is better than yours". What a waste of everyone's time. It creates all this disorder, simply because folks can't put their ego aside and just be real. We get very little done. It sucks.

The only reason I state this - I mean after all, it is all but common place in the business world, everyone's egos stepping on the others, is that every now and then you see a beacon of "fuck you all, I'm riding down my own path and I really don't care what any of you think". A person who is an anomaly, who doesn't necessarily stand out, because that's not their intention, but they are differentiated from the rest of humanity simply by being there own person.

I applaud these people, mainly because i meet so few of them and also because for a brief moment I am meeting someone who has the integrity to be real and not some facade of what they think they should be.

I don't think any of us can be that person at all times, we all have needs after all. I'm not even saying the person in my mind's eye even displayed this high personality trait on our brief encounter, but I did see more than a hint that it was possible. Having been living the repeated hell of meetings and daily life where ego's try to trump each other, even the brief moment of time with someone real is a refreshing.

How this fits into global warming, I'm sure I could be clever and think of a connection, maybe in my rewrite. Right now I'm too drunk on wine to care...

Okay, maybe not too drunk.

I think we all know what the right thing to do is even if it is relative to our own personalities. We tend not to do that right thing because we second guess. We shouldn't be afraid of making fun of ourselves, of being wrong, of letting others be who they are, of wanting, caring, not caring, even if it goes against the grain of so called society.

The mass society is what got us to the problems we face, is what brought us idiot leaders and bad choices, so yes, fuck the masses. They are sheep acting in accordance to their own fears. If more of us were true to ourselves, we would find less bad decision making, which in turn would aid in all causes and issues that need attention, including, um, yes, you guessed it, global warming.

Then again, ha! maybe I'm just second guessing myself!! .....

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