Consumerism is the institutional method to medicate through entertainment and recreation. But, you think it is the frivolity that weakens the production focus. It is not the activity that is the problem. The problem is that you are not clear about your contribution. You risk shutting me out because you cannot see the opportunity for our collaboration.
Shame is the institutional tool that seeks to deny individual giftedness in favor of the collective identity. The expressed goals are to maintain order, to be fair, and lend predictability to chaos. To bow, conforming, to shame is to stunt the chaos that motivates change and inspires growth in you and in me.
Guilt is the institutional source of choices that attempt to fix past failures. Rather than achieve goals based in principle, the guilt reflex suggests that you apologize because the goals may offend the sensibilities of another. The distraction is the quest for politeness, rather than the quest for success. Clear communication gives way to political correctness.
Shame is the institutional tool that seeks to deny individual giftedness in favor of the collective identity. The expressed goals are to maintain order, to be fair, and lend predictability to chaos. To bow, conforming, to shame is to stunt the chaos that motivates change and inspires growth in you and in me.
Guilt is the institutional source of choices that attempt to fix past failures. Rather than achieve goals based in principle, the guilt reflex suggests that you apologize because the goals may offend the sensibilities of another. The distraction is the quest for politeness, rather than the quest for success. Clear communication gives way to political correctness.
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The past may affect our behavior through pathways, but the future is also powerful. We all have a sense of purpose, an idealized self, a series of goals for which we strive...conscious and unconscious... The past is, in fact, the past. The future and (a person's anticipation of rejection)may play a much larger role than we think. The current may be determined by existing patterns... If we were fully determined by the past; then we would never be able to change. The past no more determines the present or the future than it is determined by them. The real past exists for each of us only as we constitute it in the present, against the Horizon of the Future.
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