Be Good.. yet know when to Be Bad

Society thrusts on us a moral code and ethical barometer by which one ought to abide and follow in order to be consistently right. However, we also witness the rise and fall of citizens who have broken all sort of criminal laws in order to gain supremacy.  This creates ambivalence in the way we think and act. In one hand, being too good may ultimately bring ruin and misery to one’s life. In the other hand, being bad will tarnish your reputation and compel you to live by the bow or die by the arrow. You will suffer for it in the end.  So when does one adjust its own morality according to circumstances? The secret is in knowing exactly when and how to be bad.  When the conditions call for it, you must be a tiger, downright brutal in protecting your territory or acting with blatant force in order to secure a position. At other times, you must be the crafty snake maneuvering and swindling in the midst of rivals while using scapegoats and cat paws to keep your hand sparkling clean.  Finally, you must repeatedly play the koala bear, the self-effacing, the submissive humble meek.  The roles are not easy to play, they require flexibility on the moral gauge, in order to plug in the right voltage of evil as the situation requires. Even though, the skill must be used sparingly, it creates more power and peace, than the man who opts out to be too good all the time. This cleverness is the metaphor of the little girl trapped in the body of a vixen giving fellatio to a man while holding a gun to his head with the safety feature off…

Little Girl (Koala Bear), Vixen (Tiger), Can you spot the Snake?

Yes Master ... NO MASTER

The modern workplace can be compared to a jungle, where only the lions eat.  If you lurk around the giants territory trying to outdo his hard work and steal his lunch, you become the lunch while losing your ability to gain ultimate power. However, sometimes we witness the unthinkable paradox.  Egrets are found on the back of water buffalos. The bird will feed of ticks in exchange for protection and sometime free transportation.  Oxpeckers also feed of lice and ticks of the zebra’s back.  In exchange for free food, they warn the zebra by screaming when predators approach.  The same relationships are found in modern workplace. You provide a service for your boss in exchange for recognition, compensation, career development or professional network. The goal is simple. Strive to be in your bosses’ inner circle to benefits from his or her help until he or she withers down and is forgotten like a fallen star. You then get a shot at being the new boss having learned from the mistakes and successes of you predecessors.