# Status Quo Disappointment By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-11-10 If one's job is to question the status quo, one may be destined for constant disappointment. There are several reasons for this. First, one must examine what is and what might be to do this job effectively. Inevitably, as one explores what might be, one will find a more appealing possibility. One's mind will race to determine how such a possibility might become reality to discover the essential questions that challenge the status quo. Through this thinking, one creates the objective mental reality of different and better. One may now have expectations, beliefs, and desires to exist in this preferable state. As the status quo is the status quo for a reason, the likelihood of this state ever happening in the physical world is exceedingly minimal. No matter how well one crafts an argument, one may find oneself in a lesser form of being compared to what one imagined is possible. Second, as highlighted by Sartre, hell is other people. As one's job is to question the status quo, one often engages with people who don't like, understand, or appreciate the uncomfortable questions that challenge their beliefs and values. Change is hard, and there is no limit to the number of ways people obscure, ignore, and dismiss information and ideas. They will likely never appreciate or like it even if they pay one to do this job. One may become a social outcast and exist on the edge of society just by doing the job someone willing paid them to do. As we are social animals, this is likely a disappointing outcome that reveals the depths of human limitations and suffering. Furthermore, one is a human. Third, if hell is other people, what are organizations? One may conclude that organizations serve as a ladder out of hell, but one is confusing organizations with solidarity. Organizations perpetuate and normalize the suffering of today. To question the status quo is to question the organization and everyone perfectly happy with the normal amount of suffering. The disappointment arises as one realizes one's organization is no different. #### Related Items [[Status Quo]] [[Organization]] [[Thinking]] [[The Human Condition]] [[Suffering]] [[Solidarity]] [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] [[People]] [[Change]]