The Death of Vesting in america
One of the most powerful human behaviors that can be harnessed is vestment. If you can convince people to cooperate because it is in their own best interest you have won most of the battle that you are fighting. Yes it is manipulation, but it is a form of voluntary manipulation so it plays better with most people.
Companies have used vesting to garner employee commitment for decades. If you get a pension from a company then you are more inclined to make a long term commitment to a companies success. You will go along with things that would otherwise trouble you since you will personally benefit from the company's success.
Governments use vesting to get citizens to follow law and national policy. For example, it's in your best interest to stop at stop signs so you don't get hurt in an accident. Voting rights are form of vestment that make people feel like they have a voice in what goes on in a government.
Family involves vestment as well. If your woman gives birth to your children, you benefit by your genes being passed forward to mankind. You will be inclined to protect and make sacrifices for your children. Other's children, maybe not so much.
Another powerful human behavior is exclusion. Once you demonstrate to someone that they are an ousider whose opinion is not welcomed or needed they will build a wall between themselves and whomever shunned them. Cooperation becomes spotty, even random, based upon the immediate circumstances.
Recently companies have embraced exclusion by hiring contractors. These temporary employees know that their only value to the company is the work that they perform today. Without any long term relationship with the company, they will have no interest in the company's success other than the work they do on a given day.
Government that practices exclusion risks loosing the faith of citizens in law and policy. When citizens believe that law and policy is arbitrary and capricious, as well as not in their best interest, they will ignore it. Then chaos ensues. But once citizens believe that their vote means nothing, they will rebel and only follow their best interests.
As vestment dies in america, cooperation dies as well. If you are a temporary worker, a serf to feudal government or momma's latest boyfriend why care if the company succeeds, the nation thrives or your girl friend's little boy grows up to be a decent man?
Having worked and lived in a vestment based society for fifty years, I was more commited to the institutions and their goals as our futures were bound together.
The past ten years as companies shed pensions and let workers go on a whim the commitment between me and employer has diminished. I no longer bind my identity to my employer and am more critical of company policies and procedures. When I believe that the company is wrong I will simply refuse to enforce it's dictates. I look out for myself more and the company less, realizing that our relationship is temporary and long term personal relationships with others outside the company do more to ensure my employment viability than loyalty to my current employer.
The past few years as government has ignored my wishes and told me to shutup I have ceased to identify myself as an american and more as an individual with God given rights. I am no longer prepared to dutifully follow national policy as a patriotic sheep. In fact, I am prepared to resist and misbehave if ther government continues to treat me like a serf in the feudal system they are engineering. Tyrannical laws no longer bind me to the state or the people when they are contrary to the Constitution.
I have been married to the mother of my children, that I fathered, for 33 years so my vesting in family strong. But I know many fathers who wander in and out of the lives of the mother of their children and their children's lives without vesting. It is a horror and is shameful. I believe it creates children who themselves are unable to vest in anything. I know men with girl friends who would wish the children of other men harm rather than provide even safety or comfort. This bodes great evil for the future.
The success of peoples and nations is based upon cooperation and common bonds enhanced by vestment. But as this concept diminishes in america so does the nation. As Aragorn said at the Black Gate, "A day may come....when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship". This country and it's institutions are well down this dark path. The death of vesting in america will be the death of america.
Companies have used vesting to garner employee commitment for decades. If you get a pension from a company then you are more inclined to make a long term commitment to a companies success. You will go along with things that would otherwise trouble you since you will personally benefit from the company's success.
Governments use vesting to get citizens to follow law and national policy. For example, it's in your best interest to stop at stop signs so you don't get hurt in an accident. Voting rights are form of vestment that make people feel like they have a voice in what goes on in a government.
Family involves vestment as well. If your woman gives birth to your children, you benefit by your genes being passed forward to mankind. You will be inclined to protect and make sacrifices for your children. Other's children, maybe not so much.
Another powerful human behavior is exclusion. Once you demonstrate to someone that they are an ousider whose opinion is not welcomed or needed they will build a wall between themselves and whomever shunned them. Cooperation becomes spotty, even random, based upon the immediate circumstances.
Recently companies have embraced exclusion by hiring contractors. These temporary employees know that their only value to the company is the work that they perform today. Without any long term relationship with the company, they will have no interest in the company's success other than the work they do on a given day.
Government that practices exclusion risks loosing the faith of citizens in law and policy. When citizens believe that law and policy is arbitrary and capricious, as well as not in their best interest, they will ignore it. Then chaos ensues. But once citizens believe that their vote means nothing, they will rebel and only follow their best interests.
As vestment dies in america, cooperation dies as well. If you are a temporary worker, a serf to feudal government or momma's latest boyfriend why care if the company succeeds, the nation thrives or your girl friend's little boy grows up to be a decent man?
Having worked and lived in a vestment based society for fifty years, I was more commited to the institutions and their goals as our futures were bound together.
The past ten years as companies shed pensions and let workers go on a whim the commitment between me and employer has diminished. I no longer bind my identity to my employer and am more critical of company policies and procedures. When I believe that the company is wrong I will simply refuse to enforce it's dictates. I look out for myself more and the company less, realizing that our relationship is temporary and long term personal relationships with others outside the company do more to ensure my employment viability than loyalty to my current employer.
The past few years as government has ignored my wishes and told me to shutup I have ceased to identify myself as an american and more as an individual with God given rights. I am no longer prepared to dutifully follow national policy as a patriotic sheep. In fact, I am prepared to resist and misbehave if ther government continues to treat me like a serf in the feudal system they are engineering. Tyrannical laws no longer bind me to the state or the people when they are contrary to the Constitution.
I have been married to the mother of my children, that I fathered, for 33 years so my vesting in family strong. But I know many fathers who wander in and out of the lives of the mother of their children and their children's lives without vesting. It is a horror and is shameful. I believe it creates children who themselves are unable to vest in anything. I know men with girl friends who would wish the children of other men harm rather than provide even safety or comfort. This bodes great evil for the future.
The success of peoples and nations is based upon cooperation and common bonds enhanced by vestment. But as this concept diminishes in america so does the nation. As Aragorn said at the Black Gate, "A day may come....when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship". This country and it's institutions are well down this dark path. The death of vesting in america will be the death of america.
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