Ground Bogo

Banned in over nine thousand countries

All jobs are the same. Your instinct would and should be to challenge that statement, but if you think about it, everything and nothing is the same depending on how basic or detailed comparison you would like to make. Since I will obviously try to make a grossly overstated generalization here, it should be evident that this post will be devoted to the basics. The foundation of every job is judgement: this is your purpose and main task. Coincidentally, this is also what guarantees that your workplace will not be taken by a machine for the next 1/5/10/20/50 years (depending on what you do).

You can ask, if all jobs have the same basics, then how come one person is better suited for something and another for something else? The answer lies in the fact that judgement is not always a hard-cut decision; if it were black and white, then let us be honest, you would be useless. Therefore, judgements are hazy, and their outcomes are not so trivial to predict with an untrained eye. Thus a better judgement can be made by a person who is better qualified to make it. It is qualification and capacity that separates different people on different jobs: the qualification and capacity not to do the job itself, but to make the judgements that it requires. All your hard work in education and later on in work training is oriented towards arming you with the capability of making better judgements.

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It’s late. I’m at the back of some bus again, alone. I’m headed home, provided that I got the bus number correctly of course. It doesn’t matter anyway. Just take me somewhere else, I’m pretty tired. Yet another time when I curse the fact that personal teleportation devices are not invented yet. Just another random thought, lot’s of bullshit, here and there…hop, a fake monkey got on the bus, hop, an empty shell and a horse got off. Are we people, or are we the shadows of people, the hint of people, the suggestion of people…or maybe we are just animals. We are animals, and we are taken out of our habitat, and we are tortured by problems that were never meant to be ours in the first place. We are tortured by externally imposed issues: solitude, anger, frustration, depravity, isolation, an invasion of our fucking minds…Were we ever meant for all this? Possibly, but certainly not to the extent that we are currently subjected to. Read the rest of this entry »