{"id":1275,"date":"2021-03-04T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2023-06-12T05:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T05:42:23","slug":"sicksystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/sicksystem\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Tell If a System is Sick?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you tell if an organisation is sick?<\/span><\/p>\n

It treats the people who delivers the service solely as a means as to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n

It fails to notice that those who give care, also needs to be part of a community of care.<\/span><\/p>\n

It dispenses wellbeing gift wrapped and surrounded with the rah-rah cheerleading of “Self-Care,” and not address the need for communal caring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the greatest violation is the violation of the dignity of the human spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

An organisation that is sick is not able to heal those they seek to heal. Rather, they perpetuate a disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

An organisation that is designed to help others needs to make sure that people who are in the caring profession are cared for.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment we push for more, as if we are productive bots, we engage in a form of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s Thomas Merton talking about this exact issue more than 50 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is a pervasive form of modern violence<\/strong> to which the idealist\u2026most easily succumbs: activism and over-work<\/strong>. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his (or her) work\u2026 It destroys the fruitfulness of his (or her)\u2026work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom<\/strong> which makes work fruitful.\u201d
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\n~Thomas Merton<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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