the biggest negative part of this work is the stress. The social stress. My mind is physically divided between two worlds, one of academia and two of potential or actual work. While resting for thirty minutes the phone rang. Apparently none of the backwards jackasses who work for the company were near the phone to pick it up. They were doing “things”. Things defined as objects not related to their job, i.e. working on their car, watching tv, sleeping, not on the yard etc.

So as i was working on my metaphysics paper, the phone rings. I’m the lowest person on the totem pole, so answering the phone is not really one of my responsibilities. In fact answering the phone could get me in trouble because i’m not technically an M.I. employee. And yet this is all trivial, because when it comes down to the truth, my responsibilities include
-anything they tell me to do…
-anything they neglected to tell me to do but intended to have told me to do…
-and any possible problem within their own beady little minds…

So why am i angry that i got chewed out left and right about not answering the phone, it is that their argument was formulated as follows.

P1: The phone rang four times.
P2: I was in the general vicinity of a phone.
P3: Common Sense* dictates that you answer a phone if no one is around.
P4: I did not answer the phone.
P5: Ergo i do not have common sense.

Common sense has always been a mystery to me as to its ontological origins. The stratification within our society happens to distribute the ability to recognize common sense situations on the lower portions of our society and often neglects granting this ability to people on the top of our societal distribution.

I think the above is a myth believed in situations where decisions have to be made quickly and without individualized thought. In fact, i think that there are two kinds of people in the world. The first kind is the person who actively analysises everything around him, and the other kind is the person who gives his individuality to society as a whole. both kinds of course are ideals. No one human finds himself completly centered in one ideal. We all exist as a blend of percentages between the two areas. This is common sense, it is a set of understood rules that people who are forced to live by the internal robot adopt in order to make their responses quickly and with the least amount of responses.

example of this interpretation in common parlance: You don’t have the sense to get out of the rain.

what if you enjoy standing in the rain?

I’m finished.