Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Often, the individual members of a group don’t understand what the group has decided.

This is wonderful. I found a discussion online where persons who care about words were trying to invent a word for the opposite of synergy. No one suggested the obvious—the US Congress.

Politics aside, or maybe politics of ordinary persons included, lots of groups of people do what Congress usually does:

The group decides something while most of the individuals in the group don’t know what the group decided.

“Someone else understands the details. I was told it was okay,” is the usual justification.

Some persons in the world, like me, always know the details. We can’t function in life without it. We put too much emphasis on facts. Sigh. The world drives us crazy. Unless, of course, we can see the folly and entertainment in the rest of the world.