bubbah's Blog

The human potential movement

completely passed Memphis TN by.

 To this day, there has been no exploration of human potential in Memphis, TN. We live in  a fog of what we think is going on and the rumors, superstitions, outright lies by power to the people and all the failures that generated for us that have gone on in the past and on into the future. Though there is a lack of governmental transparency, the lies to us from power have us not even looking at life in a way that we aren't willing to really explore what our true human potential is. If you want to know what that does over time, just look at our statistics. 

  Was it done on purpose? Is it done on Purpose?

  Maybe not, maybe so. It doesn't matter and though unwilling to help, Government is powerless to stop us from exploring our human potential on our own.

 For a people so concerned with ourselves, you'd think that some exploration is due.

The problem comes when the acknowledgment of who we've been and what results in our lives we've generated is required, to know who we are/have been in reality. We don't like to look at the truth of ourselves, we like to look at "who we think we've been", as if what we think in our head is reality even when it isn't.

 We need to look at what our "successes" have done to people and communities around us. Good effects and /or bad and own the full extent either way it goes.

 We like to think about things the same old way and we think we don't.

Lazy thinking, not actually thinking. We get pawned by our own thoughts. We look for "reasons" not to change our way of thinking and when we find them we pat ourselves on the back for "good thinking", then, nothing new happens. But we tried! as if trying is worth something even when we fail.

 When we are so right about a position that we have that we begin giving a coworker hell in their job, especially because of an opinion we have, that should be an alarm that we have stopped focusing on making things work and that we have begun sabotaging our own work environment, our own success, our own city. The vicious cycle begins.

 In the case of MCS administration, the children of Memphis' futures.

 In the case of MLGW, the wallets of the citizens and a very hateful atmosphere in the customer service center.

 In the case of Memphis City Government it's property values, dead businesses, race crimes, violent crime, drug trafficking, blight, insurance rates, racially polarized neighborhoods, a huge population of unsuccessfully rehabilitated ex-cons used as pawns,  an unending supply of aspiring young inmates to get into the system, a perception by the rest of the world that Memphians are black, racists, uneducated, angry, poor, violent, unwilling to do anything to change.

Fertile ground for anything positive you can think of?

 Bet you can't.

 I can.

Let's see how you do.