That is a spectacular post @Kub933
I think that it explains something very functional about investigating in a narrow but incomplete
way.
One doesn’t get far. It’s like Jenga, but with so many supports that it “fills” itself back in as if nothing is missing.
I like what @claudiu says, that there can be resolution of a loop, but I haven’t seen it yet.
What I am seeing though, is the “elephant in the room” issues. Things which are obvious, but we block them out.
The wisdom of the real world as sacrificial pawns.
Easy pickings which even the denizens of reality talk about.
The “rat race” is one of those. It’s a sacrificial lamb. The lizard tail. Everyone knows about it.
Yet, if it’s all so obvious, we should smell a rat.
Pardon the pun.
Is it really the issue? What is the third alternative?
Reality says “relax! Take a sea change!”
I don’t have the answer to the situation @cross.chrono
Society isn’t the problem. Neither is organising work structures. Profit isn’t the problem.
I don’t have the answer, but I think that Richard touches on something in this quote
R:. What is necessary to observe is all the little points. I used to have a young person come to see me, years ago, and she would listen to what I had to say, discuss things with me. Then she would come with a particular situation in her life – with her lover or the people she was sharing a house with – and tell me about that. Then she would ask me: ‘What do you think about that?’ Then I would obligingly consider the matter and say something relevant. Then she would go away and put it into practice … and it would very rarely work! What I had said to her made sense in the spirit of what was discussed at the time, so what was going wrong? This went on for about six months or so until she come to live with us for a while.
By living together one can not help but notice behaviour traits and I observed her in her daily life with her lover, with the other members of the household and with people who came to visit. Sure enough, we would end up sitting out on the verandah and having a chat about life, the universe and everything, as we were wont to do. She would eventually start in on telling me about a particular situation that happened, for example, that morning … and what did I think about that? I would listen to her telling me about a situation I had observed myself and I saw where I had been going wrong over the last six months. I would only get to hear her version of the story. I would then be able to say: ‘What about such-and-such, though?’ or ‘I heard you say something different to him than what you are telling me’. Or ‘You had a particular tone of voice when you said that to him’. Or ‘You had a certain attitude, a distinct stance, when you interacted there’. This is what is causing your problems; please, observe these important manners of interacting and reciprocating.
She eventually packed her bags and left, saying: ‘I’m being watched all the time! You are spying upon me!’ It was all rather lovely for she was following a certain spiritual teacher who made a big thing out of awareness … she would often want me to instruct her into the finer points of becoming aware – in the spiritual sense of the word, that is. It is one thing to discuss it, philosophically, and another to put it into practice in one’s daily life. One starts in on developing awareness by becoming conscious of the little tricks one gets up to … even with the shopkeeper, for instance. ‘Oh’, she would say, ‘is that awareness?’ Of course it is not, yet one starts where one can. The little points, each moment again. An unexamined life is second-rate living."
It’s easy to jump on the bandwagon. “Oh, the rat race!!! What a sham!!!”.
Yet, one could ask, why the potential intimacy of being so intricately involved with people, as in being a manager, within the structure of otherwise amazing human cooperation, isn’t being explored?"
I am not. I ran away from it.