Good People Do Not Organize

in #life7 years ago

The subject of this post is a sad truth, but there is still hope.

Good people do not organize, but political people do. That's the sad truth. The reason why there is so much conflict in the world today is because bad people organize and good people do not. In times of crisis, however, it's just the opposite, good people organize and bad people run and hide.

The question is this. What if good people finally learned to organize in a better way outside of a crisis? Is there such a hope as a better way to organize?

First, let me ask a question. The typical way we organize is under a president or central leadership authority. When times get tuff this leadership authority often rejects the immediacy of responsibility and they run and hide. Corruption runs and hides from responsibility all the time. Good people do not, instead they chase after responsibility, even more so in a crisis.

My mission in life is to spread the good news of organizing by horizontal consent and to reject all vertical power structures. When more crisis comes as predicted by many, the good people will be ready. Please help me spread the good news. A renaissance is coming.

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It may sound strange but I had already thought about it, although without the words "good" and "bad."

It seems to me that it is a cyclic state of action and constant reaction. And that both side A and side B are needed, even if they are counterparts.

Regards...

If we are conversing in terms of "good" and "bad"; good does not seek recognition or power, good seeks virtue and to serve. Bad seeks to gain power and authority. In times of crisis, authority needs to be dispersed out of care and
concern for the wellbeing of those affected by the crisis. This is a abstract concept to "bad", so good steps in and organizes the crisis.

For the sake of cross examination,

  1. I see a lot of generalizations here. I do not reject your claim at this point in time, but citing some specific examples would make your argument more powerful.
  2. How do you define a bad person? Isn't it unfair to dismiss a group of people as "bad" just because they organize when their intentions are to create a better world for everyone?
  3. Haven't the "statists" done a lot of good for the world by introducing labor laws, public libraries and universities, the FDA, Medicaid, etc? Aren't these results of a top-down power structure liberating?

I like your perspective about how good people organize in times of crisis. I had never even considered this. I also like how you pointed out that good people seek responsibility and corruption runs from it. Why is it that corruption still gains more recognition in times of crisis even when the good are organizing during this time? Thank you for sharing your opinion on the matter.
-Ashlee

It seems to me that we see a corrupted political structure who want control organizing society for good people. I think this makes people unconsiously first associate organizing as bad, controlling, and wouldnt work because its not working for us now because of how separated and individualized weve become. So to avoid more corruption or contributing to the "bad", these good people sit and wait to take responsibility until tragedy occurs because they know when tragedy occurs they all come to take responsibility for a "good" purpose.

In a universe of free will, i think whats bad that most people would agree is to control someone or something that is meant to be free, such as the mind and will to think. For the most part, people are good with good intentions but are driven selfish because of the control and the inablity to be heard by people.

When organizing like politicians do, its a form of control because something that wasnt your agreement or something you didnt contribute to is now being held against your will which then causes a person to conform. That is why a way for people to organize is by coming together in communities, making agreements and making voices for ourselves in small groups rather than have one person or one group of people organize for us every time.

-Jhouriel