On Good and Bad Days, Good and Bad Humanistic Values...

Some days I feel like I can change the world; other days I want to hide from the world. Some days I feel in charge of my life and moving in a direction that I like; other days I feel like walking into work and handing in my resignation slip -- changing jobs, changing provinces, or even changing countries...Some days I feel proud of my day's accomplishments; other days I feel beaten and battered by the stress of my job and not being able to keep up with its continuous minute to minute demands; some days I feel like I have made a positive impact on the corporate values of the company; other days I feel carried away in a tidal wave of corporate pathology...Sometimes I ask myself if the paycheque I bring home is that imperative to my survival in the middle class that I can continue to work in a place where the corporate values make me...well...not want to work where I work...

I make mistakes in my job for sure, but generally not mistakes in human values...Businesses often need to be tough in order to survive; they don't need to gouge and make windfall profits at the expense of their customers and/or employees. Win-win solutions breed succesful companies and corporations; win-lose solutions in the end usually mean that everyone loses...but perhaps not as long as the balance of power remains untoppled...

There is a difference between 'dialectic-democratic resolutions' and 'unilateral-dialectic powerplays'. The first breeds 'dialectical unity, integrationsim,wholism and peace'; the second breeds 'dialectical divisionism, righteousness, anger, hate, rebellion, and war'.

That is, unless the unilateral, dialectic powerplay is so powerful as to be esentially uncontested until the balance of power finally swings..and the old power sources are toppled...Machiavillian philosophy wins some of the time...but I have faith in the eventual strength and the power of the people to topple oppressive dictators and/or corrupt, narcissistic leaders...

-- dgb, July 9th, 2008.