Goodwill is Waning

Each sailor would set a pace of goodwill against this schedule.  Each day using a portion of the goodwill that was being replenished at a rate much slower than used.  But each sailor knew that with reproduction and use, the goodwill would last the scheduled time. The goal was to end the tour with relief of exhausted goodwill.

The new orders issued, is quite the blow to goodwill on a ship.  Those sailors at sea have not metered their goodwill to meet the new two month extension they must now carry.  Each day of these new months is now borrowed time. The borrowed time is exponential because the two months may even be extended further based on conditions here in the USA.  The nation is under quarantine.

This conversation focused me on the drain of each person as they weather a storm, and where are the limits?  We schedule and dose ourselves from material to axiomatic underpinnings to face crisis, but like the sailors we have been given indefinite orders to stay at sea.

Having been in the behavior business for 19 years on the corporate side of education, i have picked up more than anyone should know about humans and their behavior.  You can't turn it off once you see it. Ever watched one of the movies about how a movie is made? When you have surrounded yourself with professionals who talk about human behavior all day you begin to see life as not a movie but the making of the movie of each person you contact.  Needless to say after a few years the rerun fatigue can catch up to you.

The aspect of human behavior under the microscope here is goodwill.  That energy we find in ourselves to do the right thing in the face of personal crisis brought on by things outside of our control.  More specifically what happens when the goodwill energy is exhausted? What is below the goodwill line?

Certainly it is some form of self survival, but I believe this survival is based on two very different paradigms.  The material and the axiomatic or what you hold and believe as moral value. Both of these paradigms exist within the bubble of your prospective future.  Each gives you a different perspective, depending on which one carries the most weight.

Although physical survival has its monkey brain to give it energy, I also believe that your consciousness utilizes similar mechanisms to force your perspective to survive.  This is where errant social behavior comes to life and is typically rejected socially. Unless, we add in group dynamics, which are beyond the scope of this post.

Government has created a crisis, whether you believe it was needed or not, they created it.  Maybe the job they are doing is great or maybe it could be done better. This is not a discussion of poor performance but rather impact on the sailor.

I don’t believe that the USA as a whole has run out of goodwill, but the signs are starting to appear.  We have entered the material survival phase in large numbers and this is testing our axioms. The test of axioms will end.  The looming question is will the axiom survive or will the consciousness battle be won by the monkey brain?

I believe humans like our sailors can understand and hold the monkey brain at bay with projections of schedule that get slipped, changed or found to be false.  The human mind needs to know that the leaders who took control of their life, are fighting to get out of the way.

Over the next few weeks we will see the axioms of our own heart tested.  Can you love your neighbor as yourself while the authoritarian efforts of the government are crushing your material well being?  How strongly you believe and have faith in the axioms you have set for yourself will be the determining factor.

My beliefs are intact at this point even though materially the future is a little foggy.  Given social and mainstream media's steady feed of blame, obfuscation for ratings and other pointless goals...wellllllllll, the monkey brain may be the bet.

My hope is that all are weathering the crisis with dignity and humility.  This is the only way we will retain any sanity post crisis.  

If you are at home and feel like you need to do something.  Write to the leaders who inserted themselves in your life and ask them to stop controlling only, and begin organizing the endgame.  Let them know you will accept best guesses and realize that new data will change the trajectory. You are not an idiot and can handle the truth even if that truth is evolving.