"We all get crushed and moulded by the tyrannical force of social convention. But, at least in principle, the benefit is worth the cost. It’s also up to you to make sure you don’t sacrifice more to The Group than you should.
You can start to tell if you’re sacrificing more to The Group than you should because you start to become resentful of other people.
That’s part of the psychological mechanism that’s informing you of that. So it’s up to you to fight against the overarching pressure for conformity and to retain your individual logos, but that’s sort of Your Problem.
The Group wants you to behave.
Now if you could behave and be creatively productive, so much the better, but that’s pretty damn rare.
The Group generally tends to settle just for behave.
There’s a tyrannical element of that, but what the hell’s the alternative?
Our Society is based on consensus, and the consensus is based on a certain Sacrifice of Individuality, even though individuality is absolutely necessary as a revitalizing force for the society. It’s a very tough thing to manage properly.
Anyways, you have your physiological structure as your first line of ordering in relationship to Chaos. Your body presents you with The World in a certain way.
And then the second line of defense is something like The Sociological Structures That You Inhabit.
We could call those the competency hierarchy. Something like that—and Thank God for them. Maybe you’re going to be able to specialize in one or two things in Your Life, but there’s 300 Things You Need to Know.
You can start to tell if you’re sacrificing more to The Group than you should because you start to become resentful of other people.
That’s part of the psychological mechanism that’s informing you of that. So it’s up to you to fight against the overarching pressure for conformity and to retain your individual logos, but that’s sort of Your Problem.
The Group wants you to behave.
Now if you could behave and be creatively productive, so much the better, but that’s pretty damn rare.
The Group generally tends to settle just for behave.
There’s a tyrannical element of that, but what the hell’s the alternative?
Our Society is based on consensus, and the consensus is based on a certain Sacrifice of Individuality, even though individuality is absolutely necessary as a revitalizing force for the society. It’s a very tough thing to manage properly.
Anyways, you have your physiological structure as your first line of ordering in relationship to Chaos. Your body presents you with The World in a certain way.
And then the second line of defense is something like The Sociological Structures That You Inhabit.
We could call those the competency hierarchy. Something like that—and Thank God for them. Maybe you’re going to be able to specialize in one or two things in Your Life, but there’s 300 Things You Need to Know.
If it’s just you, you’ll be doing your genius level mathematics while your bathtub is leaking all over your bathroom floor.
That’s Not So Good, so you can call a plumber.
Hooray for that. We tend to cooperate to keep chaos under control. We tend to cooperate to keep order under control.
That’s the political dialog, right?
We maintain The Culture to keep Chaos under control, and we balance the culture properly to keep The Culture under control.
That way we get to live reasonably peacefully, reasonably productively, for a reasonable amount of time, and that’s the best that we can do.
We should have gratitude when that’s working.
The default condition of things is that not only do they not work very well, they work worse and worse over time, all by themselves.
Any time anything is working you should just be amazed by it.
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