It says to me…
What is the neurological chemical mixing of football fans and players? What is the chemistry in the body that drives their responses and reactions? Cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine, testosterone and estrogen, muscle and emotional response stimulation, Touchdown! Fumble! Pass interception!..injury, win and lose?
What is in the chemical soup of the Bowl?
Most do not see the system, the social organism, that all humans require to sustain themselves as individuals. They see themselves as an individual that is separate, independent, and not dependent on society.
They go to work knowing employment is the source and the means of obtaining their sense of independence, the means for being “free” from dependence. Round and round in a circle of self created illusion and unconscious dependence on a social structure applying embedded employment as the means of providing support for their sense of place and independence.
Their awareness does not extend to the social system and the actuality of the working functions of those who have jobs as a source of means. Most are not at all interested, nor are they informed, about the character and effectiveness of the organic system that is the foundation of their source of means, so long as they remain employed and have sufficiency.
They realize that if it weren’t for their ‘job’, they would be seriously challenged to find or create other means to support their lives in the feeling of security as they know it from being employed.
I sense this to be a psychological mishmash that most find incomprehensible, choosing to avoid and then confine their awareness to immediate life experience and go to work doing whatever is offered and provided in a compromise of giving oneself to a function of doing that often has nothing to do with anything beyond what they are told to do. They do it for no other purpose than to obtain economic means. This is the generality of employment.
In many circumstances work requires only the acceptance of whatever one is paid and required to do. This common adjustment of acceptance is required to meet the task of employment and employees.
A person having accepted this does not care to be bothered with a questioning of purpose and meaning on any kind of ongoing basis, therefore adjusting their feelings and self image in order to carry out the immediate reality of job functions in acceptance.
One thing to point out is that the workforce is only about 30% (??) of the whole population that is ‘employed’ in this manner. The rest are driven to other means in order to sustain their existence, i.e. family, marriage, entrepreneurial enterprise, public institutions and businesses.
Each of these ‘other’ means has its own character and pattern of psychological identity and adjustment. This complexity vails the reality, the character and the effectiveness of the existing social order that must be supportive and supported by the viable means of creating provision for all. That function lay in the unexamined background in the minds and hearts of the general population, unaware and self resigned in their work-world of provision.
It is especially true of leadership because its primary focus is on maintaining the control, order, and function, of the illusion they ascribe to and accept as ‘reality’. They are fundamentally uninformed, uneducated regarding the totality of the collective organism of human life. They focus only on the necessity of the rules, control and dominance. They are uninformed about the responsibility of the social organism that must provide for that which the individual alone is not able to provide for themselves.
Therefore they do not seek to optimize provision and its positive distribution. They focus only on wealth. Such as, “How much will it cost?”, “How much can I get?” Seldom do they focus on, “Is it vital to the wellbeing of the social organism?”
The obsessive focus on exclusive ‘wealth” becomes a pathological neglect of a healthy social order. It closes social power to a universal vision of viable social structure that provides provision, maintenance, management, rational control and development, of the whole dimension of the social organism in which all depend for their well being.