Tintypographer
I am done as of 4-21-2023. Somewhere I am no more
- Apr 29, 2020
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Succes or failure, comfort or pain, all that we really have in this world is anxiety.
This is my own personal feeling on that subject.
Our world of people is driven by anxiety. We drive all human emotion and feeling by the anxiety of what might happen. It could be fear and that's a type of anxiety but the manipulation of our desires and behaviors is the leverage of that anxiety.
Consider the concept of a great job: you apply for the job and the anxiety you feel is that you may not get it. Your behavior to compete with your resume and your interview and keeping up your linked in or references is entirely motivated by that anxiety and fear that you may not get the opportunity. You think you are motivate by the opportunity but the real motivator is the potential that you may not get it. You have anxiety which drives you to work harder and compete and strive to get it.
The job comes with compensation and a host of benefits but what motivates you is the anxiety of losing it or not moving to something greater or missing out on the bonus or options or not growing. Entire industries have sprung up to manage this anxiety and emotional stress. We occasionally build defenses to it: boundaries, standing up for ourselves, yoga, you name it... But society builds and relies on that anxiety to ensure that other's anxiety is lessened.
Bad bosses use the fear, anxiety and combination of carrot and stick to force employees to do work. Significant others use passive aggressive and manipulative behaviors to induce fear and anxiety in loved ones. We are surrounded by it at all times.
I often wonder if the greatest fear for anxiety filled people is coming on a group who are healthy and happy and worry free. I have been at companies where the boss, so angry about performance literally yelled, "I want us to be afraid of the competition, if we are not afraid we are not properly motivated".
I'm not surprised that historical figures such as Christ or Buddah or marx who promoted versions of these ideas of living without significant manufactured fear, were revoked in many ways. The fear of some bad event is a huge motivator. To a certain extent it is useful; not falling off a cliff or eating a toxic plant is of value to an individual. But somehweee we decided it was useful to use this fear as a wholesale manufactured mechanism for motivating behavior.
The curious part of me is that it ties into the basis of this forum. The fear other people have of loss whether it's society anxiety loss of a person for whatever reason such as humanity or dignity or even a productive worker feelings, or the loss of a loved one for the anxiety of not having that person and feeling bad, drives the hatred of this forum and the discussions inside.
The motivation is really about inducing that fear anxiety and keeping it in place for our world and the people in it. You have to motivate others to lessen your own fear and that leads to finding ways to manipulate them through inducing more anxiety.
I can say for myself that peace and freedom from anxiety would come from not existing. Even the concept of hell is a construct whether real or not that induces anxiety to manipulate behavior. If heaven or hell exist then their design as communicated to us as humans is a way to Induce anxiety and drive behavior.
I see a peace and freedom in not existing. There should be no fear of no longer being at all. Anxiety will be gone, fear will be gone. Imagine if that was a choice for humans: "by taking this path you will no longer have anxiety or fear..."
The loss to our growth minded cultures would be indescribable and would probably build a massive fear in all who stood to lose their ability to manipulate.
Just more of my random musings. Probably ideas already thought of by others.
This is my own personal feeling on that subject.
Our world of people is driven by anxiety. We drive all human emotion and feeling by the anxiety of what might happen. It could be fear and that's a type of anxiety but the manipulation of our desires and behaviors is the leverage of that anxiety.
Consider the concept of a great job: you apply for the job and the anxiety you feel is that you may not get it. Your behavior to compete with your resume and your interview and keeping up your linked in or references is entirely motivated by that anxiety and fear that you may not get the opportunity. You think you are motivate by the opportunity but the real motivator is the potential that you may not get it. You have anxiety which drives you to work harder and compete and strive to get it.
The job comes with compensation and a host of benefits but what motivates you is the anxiety of losing it or not moving to something greater or missing out on the bonus or options or not growing. Entire industries have sprung up to manage this anxiety and emotional stress. We occasionally build defenses to it: boundaries, standing up for ourselves, yoga, you name it... But society builds and relies on that anxiety to ensure that other's anxiety is lessened.
Bad bosses use the fear, anxiety and combination of carrot and stick to force employees to do work. Significant others use passive aggressive and manipulative behaviors to induce fear and anxiety in loved ones. We are surrounded by it at all times.
I often wonder if the greatest fear for anxiety filled people is coming on a group who are healthy and happy and worry free. I have been at companies where the boss, so angry about performance literally yelled, "I want us to be afraid of the competition, if we are not afraid we are not properly motivated".
I'm not surprised that historical figures such as Christ or Buddah or marx who promoted versions of these ideas of living without significant manufactured fear, were revoked in many ways. The fear of some bad event is a huge motivator. To a certain extent it is useful; not falling off a cliff or eating a toxic plant is of value to an individual. But somehweee we decided it was useful to use this fear as a wholesale manufactured mechanism for motivating behavior.
The curious part of me is that it ties into the basis of this forum. The fear other people have of loss whether it's society anxiety loss of a person for whatever reason such as humanity or dignity or even a productive worker feelings, or the loss of a loved one for the anxiety of not having that person and feeling bad, drives the hatred of this forum and the discussions inside.
The motivation is really about inducing that fear anxiety and keeping it in place for our world and the people in it. You have to motivate others to lessen your own fear and that leads to finding ways to manipulate them through inducing more anxiety.
I can say for myself that peace and freedom from anxiety would come from not existing. Even the concept of hell is a construct whether real or not that induces anxiety to manipulate behavior. If heaven or hell exist then their design as communicated to us as humans is a way to Induce anxiety and drive behavior.
I see a peace and freedom in not existing. There should be no fear of no longer being at all. Anxiety will be gone, fear will be gone. Imagine if that was a choice for humans: "by taking this path you will no longer have anxiety or fear..."
The loss to our growth minded cultures would be indescribable and would probably build a massive fear in all who stood to lose their ability to manipulate.
Just more of my random musings. Probably ideas already thought of by others.
