Entrenched cultural organizations and icons feel more permanent than they are. Hence, in small island states political affiliation is the ladder we lean against progress and in exchange for your compliance you get to CLIMB HIGH or as high as they would allow you. I believe it is a by-product of being small. Nothing escapes it.
A different perspective is dangerous. A different perspective will destabilize your personal ladder or outright remove it.
Lol- or so they would make you feel.
Tension is needed for change.
Network effects, brand power, and the status quo can seduce us into believing that we’re stuck with what we have, but things are rarely as permanent as they appear.
Perspective is a point of view. How we see and what we see is informed by what we benefit from what is seen. Fairness and integrity are old men. The individual with a perspective is seen as dangerous in a space where groupthink benefits the powerful.
Some of the symptoms of groupthink are:
- Stereotypes… “You are a good worker for the organization…”
- Pressure… “You think anything happens to you let me tell you what happen to me.”
- Self-censorship. … “You cannot say that
- Illusion of Unanimity. … “Nothing will make me leave I am a real….”
- Mind Guards.
In groups that thrive on {single thought}, one idea is correct, one idea is good for the whole, one way of being is sustainable, and one voice is Godly.
Difference creates tension because it’s disruptive.
Tension is NEEDED to cause change. – Change is how an organization survives.
You might not like your provocateurs or disruptors, but they are severely needed.
People don’t always appreciate when you change if your previous state benefited them, even if it was at your disadvantage.
Perspectives are NEEDED perspectives are necessary.
It is ok to be unliked, it’s uncomfortable but it is ok.
Keep going.
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter seem like they will last forever. Until they don’t.
Things are rarely as permanent as they appear.
Nothing much changes until someone cares enough to build an alternative.
It’s ok to be different.
