“Making Things Worse”

When the net result of all one’s expenditures and efforts is that the problem gets worse every year, requiring more money, expenditure and efforts -- it should be definitive proof that the solution is worse than the original problem -- and one needs instead to find the “right” solution that actually works in eliminating the problem -- rather than simply, as has become our culture and tradition, doing the same things over again, expecting different results. In all probability though, one really expects the same, predictable results -- and so one can demand even more money -- for doing the same job, or less, as the situation disintegrates into hopelessness, futility and despair!

What is not obvious, is that not only should such people be doing less -- but they shouldn’t even be doing what little they’re doing at all. In the world of counseling and therapy, that mode of behavior was recognized as “enabling the dysfunction,” rather than empowering optimal (healthy) functioning -- which is the elimination of THAT problem. It shouldn’t strike fear into the hearts of all unionists that THAT problem and the resultant jobs that enable them will be eliminated -- because time, energy and resources will be freed to solve the next level of challenge in the progress of human society towards a more perfect and happy condition.

But such a state of dysfunction has become institutionalized as our “government,” media, and other agencies that profit from the perpetuation of those problems and conditions. One would hardly expect them to want to change those cozy arrangements that place them at the top of such social organizations and pecking orders -- and so the struggle for most, is just securing a position higher up on the organizational ladders -- rather than living happily ever after on solid ground.

Unquestionably those former will be more insecure and hang on evermore tightly and fight off evermore desperately all those they consider as threats to their lofty perches -- thinking that is the only way up, and the only way things can ever be. All they have been taught in life is this struggle of everybody for everything -- as though that was an intelligent and wise way to be. A rare few escape that conditioning (education) and find a better way, which they hope to announce to the rest of society as at least another possibility, and are invariably shouted down by the powers that be, who wish to remain so under the present circumstances.

While many will “talk” about the unattainable hope for improvement, they like things fine just the way they are -- with themselves at the top, in charge, and in power. That is the well-observed “hypocrisy” of the self-proclaimed liberals. They are always self-proclaimed because their intentions are not evident to anybody else observing their actions, and in fact, it is a mark of their own cleverness to be able to say one thing and do something else -- and seeing how many people they can fool this time.

They are particularly attracted to certain occupations that loudly proclaim their "ethics" and pride themselves on their “professionalism” -- as the fact that they will be willing to do anything for money, fame and advancement. Towards these ends, they are likely to regard everyone else disdainfully as “amateurs.”