Homo Organizatus: The Man With A Plan
The indifference of both excessive accumulation and — on the other side of the coin — abstractification become indifferent to life when the thrills of excitement for the paradoxical simplicities of experience begin to lack in their process of protest to impracticality.
Homo consumens wants giant experiences but to consume maximally is to limit the experience of the original. There is no liberation when at best, half of the population of a country is envying what they have not through vicarious pleasure. Man is meant to be in a “state”, therefore, if he becomes a “thing”, he becomes desperate. The role that killing plays in the public consciousness is how deep this fascination with grand experience goes. The indifference to life is the worship of reification. The guns and knives are fear and evil made material.
Taking this concept down a few degrees in temperature and looking at it as actions or goals reifying homo consumens’ more poorly aspected self with regards to desiring maximal consumption as well as grandiosity of experience, we enter into the realm of self-sabotage.
Self-sabotage is the justly found resistance in the world to the desired goal if it is that you do not have the resources or abilities in order to receive beneficial outcome. The idea that comes to mind is a mediocre baseball player that wants to make it big. They may try but when they see the statistics of how many home runs someone hits and they realize they may never be that good, they will eventually fail or give up; probably the latter. Self-sabotage is trying to be something that’s outside your weight class without realizing the implications.
Your weight class is: your ability, your capacity to tolerate discomfort in order to gain ability or results, and your time limit in order to achieve what it is that you’re attempting to.
Homo consumens must become homo organizatus by using their intelligence and character through tests which, indeed, enable a preference to the original and somewhat daring over the mediocre and unadventurous. But with that being said, the weigh-in must be done at the beginning of a new goal before proceeding or else failure is more possible with each passing day.
It’s worth it. But to return to the baseball analogy if you have a terrible pitching average and you’re trying to make it major league, there’s a significant time limit on your ability to get to where you want. They don’t scout past what — seventeen, eighteen? The idea is that when there’s a limit imposed on your ability to succeed, if the pressure isn’t working to make you what you want to be in a sequence and in a way that makes it realistic, you should look at it as self-sabotage. Then when you give up the pipe dream of grand experience at the sake of yourself, you can actually just enjoy the game again and realize that it’s a past-time, and not an end goal.
Without laying out in detail exactly how to become homo organizatus, beyond saying that one must begin by testing themselves in all things and finding ways to move towards that which is not comfortable, I will say that it is a task which is helped by the incorporation of things which stretch the mental capacity. Not just reading or writing, not just music or meditation, but essentially definition of the self in a way which helps one understand their own points of reference. With that being stated, you can find points of reference everywhere, but without the ability to label the concept of what one represents, one will find that the knowledge is transitive.
I, one time, read something which resounded so much at the time, but I didn’t have a system through which I could establish it in my psyche as a firm conceptual identity. So the information took its effect over the course of a few months, I felt the effects for a few years, and then, was it truly incorporated into my being? I would say yes and no. Conceptually, as a homo organizatus, perhaps only in habitual action, rather than mental strength of knowledge.
A caveat, this particular way does not necessarily jive with all spiritual teachings, because some teachers specifically say that the way to go is to shun all labels and all understandings of things as firm points of departure. “Learn the key words and everything will fall into place,” they say. I don’t want to go into which paths would do this, but these are the fundamental eventualities for many children, who learn the names of some important people or learn the key words that will make people respect them in their chosen school of thought. But the point isn’t to become a member of a school of thought entirely exclusively, it’s to become a student of schools of thought, so that you can mobilize yourself effectively when faced with people who are not a part of your school of thought.
