시스템의 독성: 거짓 우상과 소외

### 시스템의 환상: 거짓 우상에 대한 적응의 독성
* 🔍 시스템은 그 의미에 대한 진정한 이해 없이 논의되는 경우가 많기 때문에 우리 삶에서 **시스템이 무엇을 나타내는지 피상적으로 파악**하게 됩니다.
* 👥 사회에서 소규모 사회 집단에 이르기까지 인간의 시스템은 행동과 순응을 지시하는 **암묵적인 규칙**에 따라 작동하며, 의심의 여지가 없는 구조를 만들어냅니다.
* 🏢 기업 환경에서 직원들은 종종 자신의 진정한 자아를 희생하면서까지 **시스템에 대한 변함없는 충성심**을 보여야 하며, 이는 반대 의견을 **배신으로 간주하는 문화**로 이어집니다.
* ⚖ 이러한 시스템에 적응해야 한다는 강박관념은 조직이 **'거짓 우상'이 되어 존재의 더 넓고 의미 있는 측면을 가리는 왜곡된 인생관**을 낳을 수 있습니다.
* 😷 이러한 인위적인 구조에 대한 적응은 개인이 자신의 진정한 감정과 신념을 억누르고 순응함으로써 **독성을 낳고, 이는 비판적이고 건강하지 않은 문화**로 이어집니다.
* 💔 기업, 사회 집단, 신념 체계 등 어떤 시스템과 동일시할수록 **자신의 진정한 본성과 잠재력에서 멀어지게 됩니다.**
* 🌌 궁극적으로 문제는 이러한 시스템을 있는 그대로 인식하고 인위적인 정체성과 기대의 제약에서 벗어나 **자연스러운 삶의 방식을 되찾는 데** 있습니다.
* 🧠 개인이 이러한 시스템에 갇혀 있을 때 정신 건강을 추구하는 것은 복잡해집니다. 개인은 근본적으로 **자신의 진정한 자아와의 단절**을 치유하기 위해 인위적인 해결책을 찾는 경우가 많기 때문입니다.

시스템은 현실을 왜곡하여 충성심을 요구하는 동시에 개인을 진정한 자아로부터 멀어지게 합니다.

Today, I'd like to talk very briefly about systems. Systems is a thing that, well, we all know what systems are, and the word gets used an awful lot, so it's kind of like we know about systems and we'll use the word quite unreflectively, but do we know about systems? Do we really have an insight into all the connotations, what it really means when we talk about systems? So, obviously, if I'm asking that question, my feeling is that we absolutely don't. We know nothing, as is the case with just about everything, I suppose, really. So, systems, it's a kind of generic term. We can have all sorts of systems. Society is a system. I'm talking about human systems here in particular, and if you're a member of a social group, that's a system. If you're a member of a religion, that's a system. So, there's all these levels of system coming down from society right down to a small group of friends. If you've got a small group of friends and you kind of, you know, you to

constitute an actual group, as in, there's kind of unspoken rules about what it means to be in the group and not in the group, and what's what the rules are that are implicit in the group that everyone knows and everyone obeys. So, there's a kind of a thing where everyone fits together and conforms to these rules. That's what makes a system. So, even like a few people, a family, or even just a few people who could be friends, constitute a system. And the idea, the best way to illustrate the idea, I think, is to think of a system, um, such as a kind of corporation that you're working in, a company. Lots of people work in companies, or even some other sort of organization. It could be anything, a healthcare provider, a Health Service. All of these assist systems, Coca-Cola, another system, but I'm not going to go into Coca-Cola particularly; they might sue me. So, the thing about systems is that from the point of view of the system and from our point of view when

we're adapted to the system. The system is unquestionable, all important, all um, all significant. It's like God. If I'm a member, if I'm an employee of a company, and I want to stay in that company and fit in in that company and maybe have a career in it, I always have to take the attitude that everything I'm doing is for the system. And more than just an attitude, I have to show that. I have to dedicate my loyalty to the system. I can't go around saying that the system is [ __ ] or that the system is crap and all of these things that we might quite possibly think and we might actually very commonly say to each other on our off time. But officially, if you want to get ahead in the system, you have to say good stuff about the system. And if you're not just a kind of rank-and-file um member of the company, but if you're aiming to get higher up, you want to be an executive, you want to

be in the higher levels. You, as is well known, have to live the system. You have to eat it and breathe it, and it has to be coming out of every pore. You have to be a system person, a company person, company man or company woman or whatever the hell, and from this point of view, anyone that bucks their system or isn't working for the efficiency to help the efficiency of the system is like, it's like you're a terrorist. And I've heard people that deliberately, employees that deliberately go against the company, referred to as not just disgruntled employees, which they're referred of as that as well, but terrorists. There's no understanding of how they could possibly be so wrongheaded as to not pull along with everyone else. It's like a big boat, and we're all rowing it, and you got some [ __ ] Egypt jamming his ore in the water and spinning everything, right? He's not rowing like everyone else. He's not pulling his weight. He's not

doing the thing he's supposed to. That is absolutely unacceptable. So we have this viewpoint, and the viewpoint is such that the advancement or the benefit of the well-being of the system is the ultimate good. What else matters if you're, you know, jockeying to be one of the higher-up executives in a company? The company has, I'm stating the obvious here, everyone knows this, it's not exactly news. But the curious thing about this is the system is misrepresenting life because life isn't actually about getting on well in the company. That's the company has substituted itself in the place of life, in the place of everything, and it's demanding the allegiance that we really shouldn't be giving to some, um, some mere thing. It's a false idol. We shouldn't be worshiping it. Sure, we can work on it, and we can do what we can to, um, do our bit, but this viewpoint where we see it

as the ultimate. The ultimate good is an inversion of the natural order. It's a perversion. The company has then become a false idol, and we know this because we know that people, when they're in the upper strata, they behave damn weird. They kind of stilted. Everything's artificial. Everything's stilted. There's a weird linger. There's a weird jaron. People behave weird. The whole sis, the whole thing is just kind of screwed up, really. And that's because instead of having their allegiance towards life, which is undefined, or towards every, the universe, which is undefined, it's been perverted. So our entire allegiance and loyalty is to this goddamn useless thing, which is so trivial and grubby. It's um, it's squalid, basically. It's not necessarily squalid if we see it in its right position, but it's squalid if we take it as being the be-all and end-all or the greatest good there could be. If we see it in the

right perspective. Maybe it's a good company, maybe it's a bad company, maybe it's an okay company if there is such a thing. But when we're actually in it and we're orientating ourselves as if the company is everything, the organization is everything, then the substitute, the substitution has taken place. And so we're behaving in a weird way. We won't necessarily, or probably we won't see this in each other because we're all thinking in the same way and we're all speaking the same lingo. And so we're all in the same group, we're all in the same club. So we won't think we're with unless we have a flash of insight or consciousness, which can happen to the best of us. We can suddenly get a flash of insight and think, What the [ __ ] am I doing? What is this [ __ ]? But you know, we'll disregard that because it's important to disregard stuff like that if you want to get ahead in the world. But from the outside, when you see people, these characters that are

adapted to their company, the corporation. Boy, do they seem weird. It's like they're made out of plastic or something. There's something false about it. [Music] Something distasteful, unwholesome. It ain't right, and we know that. You can see it. It's unhealthy. I remember in the early days when I was working in a healthcare provider, a big organization, and then the kind of thing, the kind of um, it's kind of thing that people would say, kind of [ __ ] talk, you know, when people just say stuff, and it's not at all meaningful or honest. And people will say, Are you busy? This would be the thing if I'd meet someone from work in a local town. Remember meeting someone in court once. Are you busy? In work, are you busy? And then the proper response is whatever, you know, something to show that you are super, super busy. And po boy, are you busy. This is a way of demonstrating allegiance and total loyalty to because to be busy, obviously, you're being busy, not as a terrorist, but

you're being busy in fulfilling the ends of the organization is the ultimate validation. If you're busy, nobody can say a thing against you. It's great to be busy, and it took me a time to kind of realize what's going on, kind of being naive or whatever. Remember one lady, I was waiting by a photocopy here, as you do, and she was busy. She was kind of a higher up. She was a kind of, you know, not just a staff grade or, you know, she was a manager grade. And so, she was making the conversation. She said, Are you busy? And not really thinking about it, just been kind of somewhat factious, I said, No, I'm just, to be honest, I'm just killing time till I can go home, really, you know, same as every day. And she was literally shocked. Well, don't know what other ways of being shocked they are, but she was shocked, totally shocked, and the look on her face. And she said, We never say that in the service or

whatever the hell word she is shocked as if I, as if um, I was attending mass and I suddenly um started worshiping being Satan or something, or you know, something equally, equ equally extremely shocking. Reflecting on this, and it was a long, long time ago, you can see that it is an elaborate Shard or act that everyone puts on because you can tell from the kind of rigidity and the kind of instant judgment, judgmentalism that comes out of it. It's not genuine, it's not coming from a true place. So, the weird thing about it is when we're in this situation, like this lady of being um manager up in the managerial Stratosphere, um, it's like um, we're putting on an act, we're enacting a Shad, but we don't know it. Maybe we do know it on some level, but that knowing is repressed. And because the knowing of it is the Consciousness, because there's always Consciousness there somehow, because the consciousness of our falseness is repressed. If anyone

says anything that the uncomfortableness that assoc is associated with the repressed Consciousness. Repressed Consciousness always turns toxic, comes out as judgmentalism, as if to say you're a very bad person. They're displacing that uncomfortable awareness onto someone else, saying you're a bad person. We do that the whole time when we're being false, and the more we believe something, like if I am a believer in a religion, boy oh boy would I judge other people. That's a famous... I mean everyone knows that the more religious you are, the more toxically judgmental and mean-minded you are. Odd, you might say, Well, H, how does that work? But the thing is, you can't believe without disbelieving. As Michelle deont says, What I believe, I disbelieve. What's happening? I'm in two minds, I'm split against myself, I'm conflicted. But we can't... to believe in something is an act. We force ourselves to believe it, we make ourselves believe.

it because it suits us. I mean, if you are in Christianity in a strongly Christian Society, damn right it suits you to be Christian. If you're not, you'll be burned or you'll be ostracized from the society. You have to be believing it to get on, so you have to make yourself believe because belief doesn't happen naturally. We have to buy into it deliberately. We have to say, Yeah, you have to agree to believe, but because we're agreeing and we're deliberately doing it, it's an artificial stance, a posture, an artificial posture. It carries with it the equal and opposite posture. The more I try and the more I throw myself into believing something, the more this is a lie, and the more that lie will come out, and I'll find myself that there'll be a shadow, and that shadow will come out in the form of toxicity. Because deep down, I know that I don't believe, and that's unacceptable to me, to have that awareness that I don't believe. So if anyone comes along and they're not a

Believer, just like secretly, I'm not a believer either, but I won't tell anyone. I will lash out with venom and venom against this person because they're reminding me of my own falseness, and that's just human nature. There's no point in getting excited about it. That's how we tick. That's human nature for you right there. So, there is this toxicity that comes and adapting to an artificial structure or system, no matter what it is, and the smallest, taking it right down from the society or the organization you have to be working for, whatever the hell. The ego itself is a system. The set of logically consistent ideas we have about ourselves is a system. It's an artificial posture, and it carries a shadow, as is well known to all students of Jung. We know all about the shadow. And so, the more I promote myself and appreciate myself in this kind of ego way, that yes, yes, I am this, I am that, I am important because whatever [__], the more we hate ourselves at the

same time, and that's not good. So, the ego is toxic, and it has to displace this kind of unconflicted emotion onto other people who insult me or aren't aligned with my ego values, my values. If they aligned with my values, they're great. If they're not, I'm very, very judgmental, and that's coming out of my conflicted because I'm living a lie and I'm not admitting it. So, it all comes down to this question of living a lie and not owning up to it, to oneself. You can do it; we all do it, but it creates toxicity, and that toxicity goes on to create more problems, and it creates a whole lot of [ __ ] and no good comes out of it at all. No good can ever come out of this business of adapting, seriously adapting, not just playfully adapting, saying H and knowing what you're doing, but seriously adapting to a system and believing it and making your whole life about this system and letting it define your whole being, your whole

identity creates toxicity, and out of that, it's a lie because you're more than that system, you're more than that company, you're broader than that, you're not so narrow. And when you think about it, what the hell does a corporation stand for? These corporations where, when we're part of it in the upper echelons, we speak so grandly of it and we're so affirming about what the hell is it, what's it about when you look at it really from the outside, it's a piece of [__] really, it's just little money, scarless little money-making kind of crappy little thing by sending some piece of shite to people that don't really need it. Basically, that's what it generally comes down to. It ain't that great, it ain't that fantastic, it's a piece of [__] really, it's nothing. You shouldn't be dedicating your life to it, it's [__] just Satan, do you know what I mean? I don't mean that

literally, but it's symbolically um of a satanic or of a demiurgic nature. Demiurgic means that some lowly kind of thing is substituting itself for the true reality or the true Divine principle, which isn't about selling Coca-Cola or aspirin or doing this. It's, you know, a little bit more Cosmic than that, but we are down on the ground, we're narrow-minded, and we all we care about is this [ __ ] selling crap and making money. Look, I like making money, and you know, if I had some [ __ ] to sell that could make some money, I'd sell it, but it's not the meaning of existence. It's not the B in the end all. It's just a thing you have to do. You have to do it, of course you do. You have to make some money, but it ain't God. So the whole point about systems is that from the inside, when we're adapted to them, we're worshiping a false god. We're worshiping the Demi urge.

we can't see beyond that, and we're defining ourselves along totally false lines. And somehow we know that, and there is suffering in that. But no matter what system it is, if we were to be able to look on the outside, look at it from the outside, we'd see it's nothing. It's not the whole world. It's not the be-all and end-all. It's a piece of fly [__] on your windscreen or whatever, you know, on your spectacle, whatever. It's just a little piece of crap. It's not the be-all and end-all at all. And it's okay for things to be not the be-all and end-all if we know that. That's not a bad thing. It is what it is, and it has its place. But when we take that little thing and we make it everything, and we deny and denounce and repress everything else, then it becomes, then everything goes over to the dark side. That's the whole point. So that's the whole point of

the Gnostic kind of metaphor of the demiurge really. We are forsaking our entire potential because none of our potential can come out when we're worshiping the demiurge, when we're orientated towards this piece of crap that we're thinking is the ultimate, the be-all and the end-all. All we can ever be is what the system says. So if you do really, really well in the system, the system will say you're great or great to give us accolades, but in reality, we're actually alienated profoundly from what is real. So the more adapted we are to the system, whatever that system is, whether it's the ego or your friends, your social circle, your religion, company you work for, when we go all in, as we have to go all in because you're not allowed just to, you know, you have to go all in for that kind of thing, we alienated profoundly, profoundly alienated from the true nature of things, from the true nature of who we are, and from the true nature of life and the

thing is that at that point, the natural is actually a poison to us. We're living in an entirely artificial way, and the real cure for this is to see through it so that we can live in the natural way instead, where they won't be, we won't be living in the shadow. But that's a very big step, and to us, there's no way we can conceptualize it because there is nothing outside of the system. Therefore, whatever it is that can help us is actually going to be categorized as the ultimate Evil. So, we try and cure ourselves, and this is where mental health comes in. We try and cure ourselves with artificial means because we can't use natural means because when we are wholly artificial, anything natural is poison.

Negative Psychology 001

Nick Williams

시스템은 사회에서 소규모 사회 집단에 이르기까지 다양한 수준을 포괄하는 보편적인 용어입니다.

시스템은 무언의 규칙과 구성원들의 순응에 의해 정의되며, 소속감과 충성심을 형성합니다.

회사와 같은 조직 환경에서는 시스템이 가장 중요한 것으로 간주되며, 직원들은 충성심을 바치고 자신의 행동을 시스템의 목표에 맞출 것을 기대합니다.

기업의 발전에 초점을 맞춘 시스템은 삶의 진정한 의미를 왜곡하고 단순한 조직에 대한 충성을 요구합니다.

이러한 자연 질서의 역전은 권력자들 사이에서 이상하고 인위적인 행동으로 이어집니다.

기업의 사소하고 지저분한 본성이 궁극적인 선으로 여겨지면서 충성심과 충성심이 왜곡되는 것입니다.

기업 환경은 종종 인위적이고 불건전한 느낌을 주며, 충성도와 검증의 척도로 바쁨에 초점을 맞추고 있습니다.

바쁘게 보여야 한다는 압박감은 경직되고 비판적인 분위기를 조성하여 진정한 상호 작용이 드물게 됩니다.

이러한 성과주의적 행동은 진실하지 않다는 억압된 인식으로 이어져 조직 내에서 거짓의 악순환을 만들 수 있습니다.

억압된 의식은 개인이 불편한 인식을 다른 사람에게 전가하기 때문에 불편함과 독성 판단주의로 이어집니다.

특히 종교성이 강한 사회에서 무언가에 대한 믿음은 종종 강제적이고 인위적인 것이어서 내적 갈등과 불신의 그림자를 낳습니다.

이러한 믿음과 불신 사이의 갈등은 자신의 거짓을 상기시키는 사람들을 무의식적으로 공격함으로써 타인에게 해로운 행동을 유발할 수 있습니다.

자아는 갈등이 없는 감정을 다른 사람에게 전가하여 판단과 갈등으로 이어지게 함으로써 독성을 만들어냅니다.

시스템이나 회사에 너무 심각하게 적응하면 잘못된 정체성과 독성이 있는 사고방식을 만들 수 있습니다.

궁극적으로 이러한 시스템에 인생을 바치는 것은 인생의 진정한 의미나 목적이 아닌 편협하고 피상적인 돈의 추구를 나타내는 경우가 많기 때문에 잘못된 방향입니다.

시스템의 환상과 진정한 잠재력

우리는 종종 결함이 있는 시스템으로 자신을 정의하고, 이로 인해 진정한 본성으로부터 고통과 소외를 겪습니다.

삶의 작은 측면에 궁극적인 초점을 맞추면 우리는 우리의 잠재력을 모두 버리고 인위적인 존재에 갇히게 됩니다.

진정한 치료법은 이러한 시스템을 꿰뚫어보고 자연스러운 삶의 방식을 받아들이는 것이지만, 이러한 변화는 어렵고 종종 궁극적인 악으로 인식되기도 합니다.