We are ensnared in our activities so much so that we tend to ignore why we set to do things as we do. A business person is so absorbed with how to make deals after deals and or better deals that he soon forgets other aspects of his life. Or let us say why in the first instance one has chosen such an engagement: Surely not to be overwhelmed by it all!
In the same vein a mother may decide to spend all her energies away from her family and or seek to spend a little time with her closed ones. Technology has made us into a robot. We never know when to stop and or create a life balance. Day in and day out it is the same routine. It is a debased living where we have surrendered in a ghetto of being. In our effort to stick to a work routine we have become victims of being an effective technocrat. The notion of work implies that we need to focus on what we are paid for or have chosen to do as a work activity. We have surrendered a little of our humanness.
That we have developed into a specialist, with super expertise skills in our field so much so that that aspect has taken over our whole being. It is the be and end of everything. A way to be where we never see pass that saliency which has overwhelmed our being. Caught up into it; we may either be remunerated nicely and or have been made to believe that what we offer surely is worth espousing …after all life is just about being a robot… a machine which makes us surrender our self to the artificial mode of being.
In that artificial mode of being all we do is simply see life through that veil as one may not see beyond that veil which simply stops us and make us surrenders to a certain way of being.
As an efficient technocrat, we simply do things almost repetitively whilst to be sure the ‘modern’ culture has a way of making one feels that life verily is simply about being able to be an efficient expert full stop. As an expert, I know what I am doing is good, great and superb. I also know that it would benefit my clientele and pleased my immediate superiors, These superiors may also too be a victim of the system which makes one surrender our being.
Verily we have become robots if not quite morons. This is reflective in all aspects of our engagement in life today. Work has made us surrender our being. It is all about simply either trying to be an efficient technocrat or aspiring to be! In a way the technocrat happily likes to be so subservient as it gives one a pseudo sense of being where one feels contributing towards a better future!
When our friends have some time to relax; this is mostly done in a passive state as one simply may not or cannot engage with others actively. The culture around and about us has made one develop into a consumer not a producer. Our comrades may not or cannot think beyond his expertise as he has surrendered his being to others.
Is there something lacking? Or perhaps this is the whole aim of life to be cornered and moulded in a particular way of being? Being so subjugated we thrived about as the Orwellian deltas. Or at best betas or even alphas where one is no more than an automaton… and or a productive machine which simply is here to create and recreate results
Can one be free of the norm? is it at all possible to shrug free and live beyond and above saliency of a technocrat way of being? Or am I just caught up and surrendered myself to the other?… whether a personal or impersonal one! May one be free from the norms or models which has been thrown about? Or into which we have been thrown into and adopted as away of being. Is it possible to be so organised that one may rise from the known which perhaps may stifle one into subjugation so that one may see and free the self. Or are we simply condemned to be so? … with its justifications being that we need to involved as on it depends primary our livelihood without which we may never be able perhaps even allow us to even exist. Or one may say there is a need to work and or be involved in actions which binds us in every way that one is surrendered in every way to its norm making our life little more than the Orwelians’s livid dead as already observed above.
However, the actions of the technocrat are no more than an expert which may only see that partiality. The wholistic to be sure may as well be non-existent. The specialist or expert is an excellent at the details and in some fields that is applauded and gain recognition. For most though as has been hinted the doer is caught up with projects which mesmerised one. To be free is to have that ability to rise above and beyond the modes which has absorbed one’s being. It may be a difficult but perhaps not an impossible task which may only be achieved by the reflective self: Once one began the process of questioning one’s role within our expertise we may begin to move aside and perhaps see oneself in action. No other may do so for us. It is for the individual to realise the potential to be. In so doing one may not be a victim of the modes into which we have been thrown into. The power to be is within the self: It is a call for the self to awaken from its objectivity and move onwards into a subjectivity which appreciate not only itself but others about itself. That one may not be either a plain object/subject is as equally potent as one moves about and try to make sense of the known and perhaps witness that self which we are may not be a simpleton of a plain technocrat. Indeed; there is more and the more about us…. is that which provides meaning rather than being a prey to a dull existence! Or we may observe that one may opt for a balanced life where one may easily adopt and thereby arise from the mere crashing into the mundane of a routine life which ensnares us.