Jun 26 2009
Why do we Procrastinate?
Yes, why do we? For me, I see it in about almost everything I do.
For instance, I seem to put off my Morning and Evening Prayers until the last moment and then I either rush through them or do not do them at all. If it were not for iBreviary on my iPhone, I would probably work not do them more often.
Is it that we are too busy in this, ever increasing, busy, relativistic, and materialistic world that we live in? That may be part of it, but there has always been procrastination.
The reason I bring this up is that I belong to a Distributism Forum that has been setting up socio-economic communities based on Distributism. For those who do not know what Distributism is:
Distributism is an socio-economic philosophy originated by certain Roman Catholic to apply Catholic Social and Moral teachings of Catholic Church (especially papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno). According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state (indirect socialism) or a few large businesses or wealthy private individuals (capitalism). Distributism holds that, while socialism allows no individuals to own productive property and capitalism allows only a few to own it, distributism itself seeks to ensure that most people will become owners of productive property.
We have been discussing how and where these communities should be set up, but it has not gone any further than that. It seem we are procrastinating. Why? Is it the fear of the unknown? Uncertainty of the chance of success? Or, is it something else?
All I know is that, the way things are going with today’s society, we better get stared before society, as a whole, implodes around us.
