The concept of business is like busy-ness. I’ve written papers like this before, but they haven’t seemed to go anywhere. Business is not like living. It’s like existing on earth. It may have to do with a supplement people are taking, or something like that, but it seems like a complete waste of energy to devote such effort to busyness. In many ways, business is a means to an end instead of an end in itself. There are so many laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and hoops to go through in business today. Busy-ness, therefore, is a survival zone, a manufacturing machine often. It seems like both government and busyness are partners in crime. The never-ending need to focus on reactionary reductionism and minutia creates the condition of getting distracted and diverted from what it’s about in the first place. Thomas Wells said something about “courtesy” as being a desirable characteristic of business. Anyway, I hypothesize that busyness was taken away from those who were creative and closer to nature and God. If my hypothesis is true, all the businesses, especially large corporations, are products of some imposter. It may have something to do with drugs or some reaction and reductionism, causing methodologies. Is it the devil concept? Given the state of the world today, I say it must be the devil. However, the truth is that those who were closer to nature and God were caught up in the historical extraction-exclusion exchange cycle, which drained their creativity and holistic energy. I’m not saying that all businesses are bad; I am saying they are suffering in survival zones because of an extraction-exchange-exclusion cycle that excluded the most holistic, well-motivated, positive-energy people on earth. These days, the most holistic, well-motivated, and positive-energy people are unemployed or underemployed in our traditional, Kings-castles-and-kingdoms-castles-and-kingdoms approach to industrial Earth.
Employment itself may be an industrial earth, King’s castles and kingdoms’ approach to living on earth. In contrast, I am more interested in the joy that’s associated with what’s called busyness. I’m not sure what else to call it right now. Still, it needs to be called something else because of what has happened in history. I hypothesize that calling a business an ecological niche organization might be a way forward because it connects everyone, everything, and everywhere on Earth. In other words, it provides business context and continuity. Moreover, I am curious about all the jobs talk. It seems like we’ve created a system where the more jobs we have, the more politically acceptable it is. However, there is no single standard for a job. How many people go to work in disappointment because they don’t really do much? Alternatively, how many people go to work in their dissatisfaction because they are paper pushers or on a manufacturing assembly line? In contrast, I’m interested in bringing joy back to this world for everyone, everything, everywhere on earth, so that busyness does not have to be a part of business. Everyone needs to feel joy while allocating energy on our planet for the benefit of everyone, everything, everywhere on earth.
The contemporary paradigm of what we term “business” often feels profoundly disconnected from the essence of genuine living, reducing existence to an endless cycle of functional demands rather than fostering vibrant, meaningful engagement. It strikes me as an exhausting and ultimately unfulfilling expenditure of human potential, often serving merely as a means to an end, rather than embodying an inherent purpose. Modern enterprise, in its relentless pursuit, appears mired in an intricate web of bureaucratic red tape, regulatory complexities, and procedural hurdles. This system, I contend, frequently manufactures a pervasive sense of anxiety and mere survival, rather than fostering flourishing. Indeed, governments and corporate structures often appear to collude in perpetuating this cycle, where an insidious focus on reactive measures, reductionist thinking, and trivial details ultimately diverts our collective attention from the foundational purpose of human endeavor.
My hypothesis posits that the very essence of what we now call “business” has been systematically detached from its more creative, holistic, and even spiritually resonant origins. This detachment suggests that many prevailing business models, particularly those of large corporations, may operate under a form of inherent misrepresentation or even usurpation of true purpose, perhaps influenced by a pervasive reductionist methodology. Historically, approaches rooted in deep connection to nature, spiritual values, creative expression, and holistic energy allocation were systematically overshadowed and ultimately displaced by a dominant paradigm of extraction, exchange, and exclusion.
It is not my contention that all commercial enterprises are inherently flawed. Rather, they are often trapped within the confines of this survival-driven paradigm—a legacy of an extractive, exclusionary cycle that has marginalized many of the most holistically oriented, positively motivated individuals. Consequently, those individuals who embody the most integrated, purposeful, and positively energetic attributes frequently find themselves disengaged or disenfranchised by the prevailing “industrial earth” paradigm, which I liken to an outdated “Kings, castles, and kingdoms” approach to societal organization. Indeed, the very concept of “employment,” as currently structured, might itself be a relic of this hierarchical, industrial-era mindset.
My aspiration lies in redefining this sphere to center on the profound joy inherent in collective human endeavor. This vision necessitates a fundamental shift in nomenclature and conceptualization, given the historical trajectory. I propose “Ecological Niche Organization” as a more fitting designation—one that inherently acknowledges our interconnectedness with all life and the planet, thereby imbuing our collective activities with essential context and continuity.
Furthermore, I observe with concern the pervasive emphasis on “job creation” in contemporary discourse. It seems we have constructed a system where the sheer quantity of jobs, irrespective of their quality or purpose, often serves as the primary metric of political legitimacy. Yet, a holistic standard for evaluating the intrinsic value and impact of these roles remains conspicuously absent. Consider the multitude who go to work daily, feeling a profound sense of disappointment, contributing little that resonates with their true potential or societal need. Or those who endure deep dissatisfaction, caught in repetitive, dehumanizing roles, whether as bureaucratic cogs or assembly-line automatons.
My ultimate aim is to cultivate a world where genuine joy permeates every aspect of our collective energy allocation, transforming “business” from burdensome “busy-ness” into meaningful contribution. It is imperative that every individual experiences profound joy and purpose in their contributions, ensuring that our collective efforts on this planet serve the highest good of all beings, everywhere.
In many ways, traditional busyness is an opportunity cost lost on what we should be paying attention to in this world.
Sincerely,
Richard Thomas Simmons