In today's society, The Doing qualities have taken over and suppressed Being. This is the root cause of the great number of social problems our world is facing today. We have sacrificed Being for speed, power, and profit. We have huge chains replacing the Mom and Pop stores that were an integral part of their communities. We exploit Third World countries for their natural resources and cheap labor and ignore the consequences to the lives of their people and our own.
Social activists are also prone to Doing in a dissociated way.
After all, we are products of our society and it isn't easy to change such a deeply ingrained pattern of Doing. In addition, we often feel an urgency to accomplish as much as possible because of the destructive momentum of our current society. There is a trap in this. We often ignore our relationships with each other while organizing meetings. We forget the depths of our souls while pressuring people, institutions, corporations, and governments to wake up.