The Hope of Barnacles

Although Telephila represented non-profit organizations, Telephila itself was not a non-profit organization. Telephila was a for profit organization that raised money for non-profit organizations. In other words, Telephila was not only a business but also a paradox.

In the non-paradoxical world, contradiction is perceived as falsehood. In the realm of paradox, contradiction is the coin. Because of its manifestation of premature insight, paradox tends to gain attention quickly but later it is discredited when its emptiness becomes apparent.

Businesses come and go especially paradoxical businesses.

Since businesses are composed of humans, they tend to have human characteristics. A human is a terminal product of conditioning and environment. 

The prevalent conditioning of most Americans is/was and will be to crave sexual intercourse.

The prevalent environment of most Americans is/was and will be hope.

Almost all Americans realize that someday they will die.

Almost everyone who worked at Telephila was an American

Like businesses everywhere, Telephila was full of secret office romance.

Like businesses everywhere, Telephila would someday fail or dissolve or be sold or be taken over. Telephila was terminal.

Like businesses everywhere, Telephila ran on hope.

Like businesses everywhere, Telephilia tempered hope with respect and wisdom.

Like failing businesses everywhere, Telephilia had much more hope than it did respect or wisdom.

Hope minus wisdom is gullibility.

Hope minus respect is defenselessness.

Telephilia, through paradox combined with visionary arrogance magnified by haphazard management,had become a gullible, defenseless floating shipwreck loaded with intrigue and covered with barnacles.

Yet there was hope.

Always there was hope.

A barnacle is a rather simple organism with a corresponding simple consciousness. When a barnacle is able to express itself and its'corresponding nature by attaching and growing on a marine vessel. it has achieved its version of Nirvana. Of course a barnacle also experiences a terminal phase when being scraped off.

When a barnacle is scraped from the call center, the 'terminal phase' is aptly called 'termination'. When the barnacle scrapes itself from the vessel this is called self-separation or poof.

Barnacles who poof are occasionally re-incarnated Sometimes these born agains ascend to leadership, supervisory positions at which time they forfeit all memory of the mis-management they suffered as barnacles, which caused them to self-separate in the first place,and they embark upon a replicative reign of terror until once again they self-separate in pursuit of further illusion.

Usually two steps ahead of the posse 

Such premature evacuation leaves open the possibility of another supervisory incarnation further down the road after the posse itself has been self-separated or poofed. 

Memory is of short shrift when hope navigates the ship, when strategy has devolved into ritual and when the only thing we have to fear is the forgotten past.

There's always a barnacle out there somewhere looking for Nirvana. Hire 'em, fire' em. Life goes on.

The Japanese have a word for such a process. The word is 'shikataganai' which loosely translated means 'it can not be helped....it is Nature".

Just like Hiroshima.