I was not making a criticism, but elaborating on the elaboration.
Culture builds on itself. "Most books are about other books",
as George Steiner said, and I forget who said that we can
read the big book of Nature only because we have studied the
little books of men. Crescit eundo -- both cancers (including
those of the political sphere) and felicities.
--
Slightly different topic. Sentimentality (including Sigmund Freud...)
says that the Copernican revolution was a big blow to human self-
image, because we were no longer at the center of the world.
Hans Blumenberg argues that being at the center of the
world was not a very good place to be in either the Greek or the
Christian traditions, because, in the first, the Good was up in the
Heavens, and in the latter the bad (hell) was at the very center
o0f the center. Apparently it was Nicholas of Cusa who first
argued that wherever man understands himself to be a perspective
on the totality is the meaning of the world, no matter where
that may happen topographically to be. We need a new holiday:
Nicholas Cusanus Day.
Better, every day, both every work day and every "day off" should
be Nicholas Cusanus Day. Jesus Christ rotted on a cross. Genji
just ended up wanting to be a monk. Nicholas of Cusa apparently
saw what is constructively possible for persons, and which
in the last century was echoed not just by people like
Edmund Husserl, but even that pioneer deconstructor of
the Western philosophical tradition beloved of the Brits:
Ludwig Wittgenstein, who said:
Even though the ether was filled with electromagnetic waves,
All was dark, until man opened his seeing eye
and there was light.
\brad mccormicc
Ed Weick wrote:
Brad McCormick:
Ed Weick wrote:
It's not often that someone responds to his own posting, but after
having sent it off the following paragraph struck me as being a little
dumb because changing jobs in today's labour market is not that easy and
the job you change to may be no better than the one you left.
Isn't it more accurate to say that the job you change to
*may very well be worse than the one you left* -- and, again
fine tuning: not the job you left, but the job that ceased to
exist and which therefore contributes nothing to *anybody* any more?
This may well be the case.
"Many people put in more that 37.5 hours and much of the work they
do is tedious and demeaning. However, unlike the serf or slave,
they can change jobs and, if they are unionized, can negotiate the
conditions under which they work. That was less possible in earlier
times."
[snip]
Aren't fewer and fewer workers unionized these days, at least in the USA?
This may be the case. In Canada, I believe that unions remain strong in the
public services, transportation, some manufacturing (eg. the auto industry),
and the natural resource industries. However, with a shift in the economy
to the service and knowledge-based industries, their overall clout seems to
have diminished.
Ed
Ed Weick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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