Slacking is about responding inadequately to one's responsibilities, the inadequacy caused by a shortage of disposable energy. Energy to: get up in the morning, go through the daily grind and toss the empty can of Diet-Coke into the garbage bin of the right color.
Losing initiative is a careful practice, which if sustained, results in chronic mediocrity. An organization may relegate some role to the mediocre employee which he does a bad job of but not bad enough for him to be terminated from employment. If this is not by overbearing intention but despite, we have an Underman.
The Underman pretends to compete with others in linear equations only: money, Toyota Corolla and big-screen TV, things which overshadow the absence of many other things. Therefore, he does not fall into the traps of cliched motivations that are inane. And occupies himself with novel inanities.
Ubayam: Zero
Labels: mediocracy, Overman, postmodernism, slacking, Toyota Corolla, TV, Underman, Übermensch
Toyota corolla? Even that is mediocre.