Sunday 14 September 2014

metabolic intensity

The highest force of metabolic intensity I have ever felt was when I was working for the labor union.  It’s weird that so much direct evil was functioning in that work place, but we can see the logic of that situation if and when people renounce the role of being authoritative or taking on responsibility because they have decided that formal power is evil.  But then they resort all the more violently to the appropriation of informal power, which means backbiting, undermining, allowing chaos to persist instead of fixing it (one of the most subtle forms of vile hostility and aggression).
 
And somehow they convince themselves that this vulgar state of affairs is necessarily redemptive.

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