Be Your Own Person by James Hudson

Author:James Hudson [Hudson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Among humans, it is common to use new team members to work on long-festering problems such as non-productive sales territories, blocking attacks on sports positions by the opposition and other activities which the entrenched elite have no vested interest in pursuing. Any elite has no vested interest in allowing problems to become their problems that ride on their backs. They want the new guys deal with it.

One thing you will find out fast if you watch other people carefully is that those who do most of their thinking with their group instincts are uneducated and generally ignorant about a long list of things. Knowing the least bit of truth about them will pay plenty on the job, in school and around other people. Anyone who says you should do something because other people are doing it will lose a lot of time, effort and money in a stock market crash, for example. They want you to follow the crowd as it jumps off the cliff. This sort of instinctual conformity response is strictly for losers. You do not accrue any sort of survival advantage from instincts because you do as others expect you to do. The world is run by intellectual people, not herd animals.

Being instinctual will not help you get any sort of intellectual work done. There is no intellectual way that you can operate a machine tool or put together a marketing strategy by being a dumbed-down conformist coasting along on instincts which are primarily emotional in nature. You need to use your cerebral cortex to activate the rational and intellectual capacities of the human brain.

Again, note that the human race was mentally submerged for most of its history, for over two hundred thousand years, until people started using the rational parts of the brain and began doing things beyond the instinctual, such as mechanized agriculture and creating the first bows and arrows. When the human race ran on instinct, agreeing to go on living up to other people’s expectations got them nowhere. According to Nietzsche “The extraordinary limitation of human development is attributable to the herd instinct of obedience.” Obeying other people’s expectations and requests leads to nothing except on the most primitive level, meaning joining other instinctual people who stick sharpened spears into the animals they will be cooking and eating for dinner. This is the herd instinct.

Team spirit mismanages your interests. Team spirit cannot be explained in rational terms or in terms of benefits to the individual, and benefits to yourself. In some cases such as football player who gets a broken spine for his troubles, team spirit can even kill its victims.

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