Projection is the error of attaching an aspect of your inner life onto someone or something on the outside In projecting a disowned part of yourself, you endow other people and things with the power to make you blissful or miserable. Then you turn around and praise or blame the person or situation, while all the while you are reacting to an unconscious, inner part of yourself You admire the strength and confidence of the handsome man who lives across the hall and fantasize that if only he would fall in love with you life would be grandthus you project your inner strength upon a stranger. You dream of living in another town or a different culture where people never catch a cold, neighbors are always generous and kind, and babies dont cry; this is projecting your capacity for contentment onto a different place and circumstance. You dont need to go anywhere to find contentment, but you do need to reel in your projections Suppose your father was a tyrant, and you couldnt wait to grow up and get away from him. You might in later life project the quality of tyranny upon authority figures such as doctors or bosses and have a lot of trouble relating to them. You also are probably driven by an inner tyrant, a hidden part of yourself that is judgemental, demanding, and never satisfiedbut you will tend to see and abhor this quality in others rather than in yourself. It is the last thing you want to believe about yourself, so this inner tyrant is projected Anytimes someone is irritating us out of or wits, we can assume that the cause of our irritation does not lie solely in the other person. At the time it seems abundantly clear that the source of our discontent is out there the store clerk who was rude, the unappreciative co-worker, the negative parent, or the self-centered mate. Its true, the qualities we project can be found out there but they are not a conspiracy to undermine our contentment. - Robert a jOhnson
Knowledge of projection is worthless. Its interesting, and I wish it was helpful, but as a rule knowledge rarely is.
I hate getting pre-recorded telephone calls. Theyve called ten times asking for a person who doesnt live here. Pre-recorded telephone calls should be illegal. Its surreal. I fully intend to turn my irritation into something truly awesome if at all possible. Its like getting a call from capitalism itself, saying I dare you to wake up and become involved in these things you claim to care about. Dear automatic telephone dialing machine, you have irritated me enough to make me want to be a better person. Continue to dial away, Ive star 77d the line, and yet I will remember you deareast telephone dialing machine as the best example in the world of the mindless persistance of machines. Heres a paragraph from a guy who explains it pretty well.
As Randolph took his place in the pews, a particularly large bouquet caught his eye. On a card the inscription read: With deepest sympathies, Nokota Inc. The memory of the funeral woke up a mixture of emotions, which passed like prairie clouds across Randolphs weathered face: disgust, anger, amusement. The funeral bouquet was just one of a variety of personal gestures by the company, including congratulatory cards sent to graduating high school seniors, boots at local fairs, and sponsorship of sports teams, all designed to ingratiate Nokota Inc to the local community In a curious way, the ineptness of the funeral bouquet dramatized the mindless persistence that only a corporation can sustain. Randolphs own energies along with the combined energies of all his neighbors, were ultimately limited. In contrast, the energies of the corporation had no clear bottom. Maybe all the public relations activities of the company werent really about making Nokota popular at all. Maybe they were simply a way of saying. Were here, we wont go away, get used to it. You can laugh at or hate a corporation, you can turn it into an object of contempt. You may experience it as tenacious foe, you can get mad at it one day and ignore it the next. Nothing you may feel or do really matters, because in the end there is no getting around the fact that you are not really fighting a normal opponent your opponent is simply nobody. As Baron Thurlow said some three centuries ago, did you ever expect a corporation to have a consciense, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked? From the inside, the view is different. Ive repeatedly been struck by the paradox that even the most destructive corporations are populated by friendly, caring people. Sure, there are exceptions to that observation corrupt companies, companies with poisonous internal cultures, even companies that ought to be classifed as instances of organized crime. But in general, far more harm is actually caused by corporations acting in ways that are utterly legal and that seem, from the perspective of those inside the corporation, to be perfectly appropriate. Quite obviously, if corporations do harm, it is not because the people inside them lack souls. Rather, its because the company as a whole, like any organization is a complex entity that acts according to its own autonomous set of motives and dynamics.
- Ted Nace
Knowledge of projection is worthless. Its interesting, and I wish it was helpful, but as a rule knowledge rarely is.
I hate getting pre-recorded telephone calls. Theyve called ten times asking for a person who doesnt live here. Pre-recorded telephone calls should be illegal. Its surreal. I fully intend to turn my irritation into something truly awesome if at all possible. Its like getting a call from capitalism itself, saying I dare you to wake up and become involved in these things you claim to care about. Dear automatic telephone dialing machine, you have irritated me enough to make me want to be a better person. Continue to dial away, Ive star 77d the line, and yet I will remember you deareast telephone dialing machine as the best example in the world of the mindless persistance of machines. Heres a paragraph from a guy who explains it pretty well.
As Randolph took his place in the pews, a particularly large bouquet caught his eye. On a card the inscription read: With deepest sympathies, Nokota Inc. The memory of the funeral woke up a mixture of emotions, which passed like prairie clouds across Randolphs weathered face: disgust, anger, amusement. The funeral bouquet was just one of a variety of personal gestures by the company, including congratulatory cards sent to graduating high school seniors, boots at local fairs, and sponsorship of sports teams, all designed to ingratiate Nokota Inc to the local community In a curious way, the ineptness of the funeral bouquet dramatized the mindless persistence that only a corporation can sustain. Randolphs own energies along with the combined energies of all his neighbors, were ultimately limited. In contrast, the energies of the corporation had no clear bottom. Maybe all the public relations activities of the company werent really about making Nokota popular at all. Maybe they were simply a way of saying. Were here, we wont go away, get used to it. You can laugh at or hate a corporation, you can turn it into an object of contempt. You may experience it as tenacious foe, you can get mad at it one day and ignore it the next. Nothing you may feel or do really matters, because in the end there is no getting around the fact that you are not really fighting a normal opponent your opponent is simply nobody. As Baron Thurlow said some three centuries ago, did you ever expect a corporation to have a consciense, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked? From the inside, the view is different. Ive repeatedly been struck by the paradox that even the most destructive corporations are populated by friendly, caring people. Sure, there are exceptions to that observation corrupt companies, companies with poisonous internal cultures, even companies that ought to be classifed as instances of organized crime. But in general, far more harm is actually caused by corporations acting in ways that are utterly legal and that seem, from the perspective of those inside the corporation, to be perfectly appropriate. Quite obviously, if corporations do harm, it is not because the people inside them lack souls. Rather, its because the company as a whole, like any organization is a complex entity that acts according to its own autonomous set of motives and dynamics.
- Ted Nace