Politics at workplace

Why do all organizations turn political? A few days back I was doing a subconscious analysis to figure out in my mind what drives people to play politics in their workplace. And I felt the biggest driver is laziness. An urge to avoid work and yet draw all credit and recognition for the job. Isn't it logical? It would be if you consider the following presumptions I made:

1. Most of us are lazy most of the time. And we totally know it.
2. Most of us want to be seen as successful, capable, smart and friendly.
3. Most of us get offended if we are called or seen as dumb, lazy, useless, incapable or aloof. We resist, and we almost believe we are not any of that and have strong reasons to explain to others and ourselves that we are not.
4. People give too much credit to how one handles arguments, appearances and image, rather than the actual work.

And if all the above have to be true at the same time, we need a really screwed up way of going about in life. And of course such a way will work only with really screwed up people, like most of us are - we can live in illusions of parallel realities at the time and space. Therefore, I've presumed that the world is a screwed up place with nutcases running all over fooling each other and spending their lives creating illusions other nutcases admire.

This can be a really long post with thorough analysis, which nobody will read on a blog. I guess I'll write a book about it. For now, let's end with the conclusion that we are all crazy, lazy nutcases craving for money... and hence - politics.