Dear George... Naturally curious or some might say snoopy--I wondered why certain corporations publicly objected to Georgia's newly revised voting laws. So much so that they held press conferences threatening to move. Where exactly was not always mentioned. Then Major League Baseball did move from Georgia TO ironically Colorado a state that already had similar voting standards.
Okay - let's take a deep breath then look at this latest circus event from another perspective...What was/is so much corporate Motivation? Was it pressure by shareholders? Was it objections from investors or fans? [Though certainly not from ticket holders in Georgia.] Was it from the employees of each company and Major League Baseball or some of the sports talent? I might have missed a press conference held by ball players...
Curious again I asked the world-wide-web for a definition of Motivation. Naturally both Bing and Google were able to oblige: *--the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way--*--the general desire or willingness of someone to do something. Okay, but not really helpful. But-then--I noticed that Wikipedia devoted 31 pages to the subject of Motivation! Seriously? Thirty-one pages! My inquisitive side was off the charts. And - you're gonna luv this because motivation can explain much of what has been so perplexing - of - late...
Motivation can explain why people behave as they do - but does not excuse any harmful behavior... Neuroscience aside with its studies in psychological theories and content theories - we'll have fun with more of that as we go.
Remember junior high/middle school? Of course you do everyone does, typically for all the same reasons we'd like to forget junior high/middle school. Those years were the onset of puberty with greasy hair, excess sweating, awkward growth spurts, voice changes, pimples, getting glasses and/or braces and developing biological changes...Like watching what we knew of ourselves to age 11 morphing into something we hardly recognized! Yup we all remember...
Life abruptly gets far more complicated after 12 biologically and socially. However, it's the social weight of transitioning from dependent child to [emerging] independent adult that generates the root of unconscious and conscious motivation.
Insecure people are dangerous people and typically the same people with arrested adolescent development--had their 'transitioning' from immature to mature--interrupted. As insecure people - any politicians, CEOs, managers or your supervisor - are easy to spot, but not so easy to deal with. They ridicule, they are inconsistent, petty, blame circumstance or others, deny responsibility a-n-d lacking confidence they're influenced by trends like 'woke'...
An enterprising research psychologist named Abraham Maslow created a pyramid to demonstrate his hierarchy of needs -and- right in the middle is Social/Friendship/Belonging. Which brings us to the In-Crowd. Every school had one [or more]. From the perspective of at least a decade after graduation if you were able to shed that heavy weight of inclusion-exclusion you've grown beyond that handicap. [It's ever so freeing to arrive at; "I'm flawed, but I'm okay."]
A self-serving motivation is swirling around by disruptive special interest groups - not just in America, but globally, seeking to turn daily life up-sideways... Our 'job' that of 'we' the general public of everyday logical liberals and conservatives - who manage our own education, homes, families, businesses or careers - is to think beyond 'what' some people are doing--to 'why' some people are doing it. When you hear a network news soundbite or read a newsprint headline ask: "What are they 'not' telling me? What information is missing that I should know?"
Why is someone running for public office or robbing banks or cheating investors or joining a church or buying a new car or enduring a facelift OR moving an entire baseball, All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado?
It would appear to be a contradiction for the executives in any free enterprise corporation such as: Delta, Coca-Cola, Merck, Bank of America, Porsche, UPS, Home Depot, JP Morgan, Cisco, Citi-Group, Mercedes-Benz to dive into a sociopolitical debate on voting. If they had read all the revisions they had no cause for concern - unless, there was an alternate motivation. Did members of the executive boards in these companies want to appear as concerned corporate citizens to keep their market-share -or- to stay off the radar of a tax-happy administration? [No one wants to be in the crosshair sights of Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.]
Our left leg and right leg work in balance. Our right arm and left arm are still 'joined' in the middle...[Perhaps a pathetic analogy, sorry.] Regardless, our humanity is designed to work in balance, joined in the middle - just ask Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The hidden motivations of those who do 'not' feel 'okay' become many moving parts designed to keep Main Street voters distracted from looking too deep or even asking the right questions - never mind 'any' questions.
What is 'my' motivation? It's not money because though my Blog readership in a few short months is now several thousand I chose not to sign on for advertising. Nor fame, if that was important I would not have walked away from a promising opportunity in theater. My motivation for each published blog is similar to that of anyone who might witness a car accident then rush to help should anyone be injured... [If you/we/me are able to speak up then you/we/me have a responsibility to speak up.] But, by all means do-not take my Blog for any value--question my work too.
Always, always, please - think for yourself. Speak up, but with a calm purpose. Speak up or email any and all elected representatives for your city, county, state. Their motivation for seeking public office should be to 'serve' your city, county, state - not the reverse...
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*Sherrie Todd-Beshore is a mystery-suspense novelist and former journalist...
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