Thang Nguyen 555

Efficiency, chain of command and hustle. Speed of execution. Climb the ladder. Through smoke. To the top. Only to find out , it’s the wrong building.

Or worse, like in 9/11 situation, the building (obviously with hole punched through by an AA flight) collapsed on you and first responders.

We hate to admit we were heading in the wrong direction. “Well, it’s up, hence must be right”. The natural tendency to deflect, shift blame and delay punishment (it’s the process, it’s unfair).

People who retreated to a different venue – be it monastic or monetary – might not be altogether wrong. They bravely showed us an alternative, a creative and third way e.g. non-violent protest, optimal, suitable. Instead of binary Heaven or Hell, it’s Home.

As a species, we have tried real hard (just to maintain the status quo): we scale, outsource (BPO) , plain old lie (POL) with “new norm” (“team normal” vs “clown car”).

I was struck by a line in the J-6 report. Whereby then Acting AG Rosen “I will not be fired by my subordinate”.

In other words, certain things still intrinsically ring true: decency, honesty and fairness. To many, it’s survival, survival and survival at all costs (have you bought a dozen of eggs lately?).

Life – if modeled after Maslow Scale or the OSI model – lingers at the lowest common denominator: the physical layer (food, clothing and shelter). 98 % of us,

All told, we are to take the self-administered pills. Rest and recover. Then continue the climb, to the next rung: Christmas, New Year and Valentine’s Day. Greetings from Hallmark. From the Vatican. From Kiev. From everywhere, even from Heaven and the Highway leading to it.

The call to recuperate and climb on. Never a call to self-examination or an U-turn. To entertain the possibility that we might have been wrong all along. Instead, we keep on hurrying up, follow the herd, only to find out, it’s the wrong building.

Tactically, we march in the most efficient way (stack formation etc…) or press the pedal to the metal (fuel vehicle or Electric Vehicle). Strategically, it’s a disaster. Slow-boiled effect. Only to wake up and find ourselves in a blunder like Rest of World. Wake up, henchman! At other’s bidding. Been had, Brazilian.

The irony of life is once at the bottom, one can’t be fired by his/her subordinates. Why bother pressing the pedal, Up doesn’t always mean right. Wrong building!