> I was able to compartmentalize work, but still, when one acts, speaks, and executes in a way dictated by a work culture, not by their own, there is—even if just a little—part of them outsourced to the company. Even though I was very clear with myself about the boundary of job versus vocation, a neurosis still emerged that required me to find the individual path.
Man, so much of this resonated with my own experience. Even if you're laughing at the corporate nonsense, vision and mission and all the performativity, some part of you is surrendered to perpetuate it; it's like Havel's greengrocer:
"[T]hey must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system."
> I was able to compartmentalize work, but still, when one acts, speaks, and executes in a way dictated by a work culture, not by their own, there is—even if just a little—part of them outsourced to the company. Even though I was very clear with myself about the boundary of job versus vocation, a neurosis still emerged that required me to find the individual path.
Man, so much of this resonated with my own experience. Even if you're laughing at the corporate nonsense, vision and mission and all the performativity, some part of you is surrendered to perpetuate it; it's like Havel's greengrocer:
"[T]hey must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system."
That's so true man. Wow, that quote is spot on. Perfect for the situation we're describing. Thank you for reading and your comment!