John Warfield I don't know. Must have been somebody else. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Ray Harrell <[email protected]> wrote: > My apologies. Not knowing the book I did make an assumption. Just went > to Questia and reviewed it. We are not on separate sides here. I don't > see how the current need for capitalism to grow in order to survive fits > with sustainability. A homeostatic economy is considered stagnant and bad > by the current system. I agree about the need to rethink natural resources > as capital if I understood what he was saying. Still, a relationship with > the world as alive would be even better. But to get that the Neo-classics > would have to admit their failure. Too much ego. > > As far as Arthur's train is concerned. I made it concrete only if you > believe the world is concrete. I don't. I don't think reality can be > explained ultimately in anyway other than metaphor. I use train metaphors > all the time. It was the experience of the process of the smell, the > hugeness, the danger and the result that came together to represent "Train" > to me. I'm not sure what the process means to anyone else, hence my > question. > > That list you're on is strange. It feels more like a political list. > > I'm eliminating such groups from my life at this point because I have to do > a lot of writing and organize my legacy both in my business and community. > Don't know how much longer I've got to do that. I hate leaving a mess. > > Who the hell is Tom Walker? A serious dude who is a typing friend on the > internet. Wasn't it you who visited John Warfield at GMU some years ago > and wrote about it on another list? Perhaps I'm mixing you up with another > friend from the past. > > REH > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandwichman > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:28 PM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Servants and Nannies? > > It was I who asked why the threads on the list seem to specialize in > digression from the topic of re-designing work, income and education. > > "Are orchestras and opera companies small?" > > Ray, "Small is Beautiful" is the title of the book, not a > comprehensive summary of the book's analysis. And, yes, within the > compass of Schumacher's conception of small, orchestras and opera > companies ARE small. But smallness is only one part of S's three-part > response to the technological problems of impermanence and absurdity > that he diagnoses. The other two parts are cheap (that is, accessible > to virtually everyone) and compatible with creativity. > > Parsing the TITLE of Schumacher's book is another digression. I cited > a PASSAGE from the book about work, escapism, aggression and denial. I > asked two questions: have we become so desensitized to the absurdity > of denial that we are no longer able to respond? and isn't that > impotence in the face of venal banality a symptom of precisely the > escapism and aggression? > > Arthur replied to my question with a metaphor about a train coming > down the track. You, Ray, literalized Arthur's metaphor and put > pennies on the track. I suppose it's a valid response to any metaphor > to take it literally and thus "derail" its fictive impulse. But it > doesn't answer my question about work, escapism and aggression. Or > does it? Does it say, implicitly, "I don't want to talk about that" > and then enact that refusal to talk by 1. not uttering it and 2. > substituting the title of the book for the passage in question and > "refuting" a reductio ad absurdum interpretation of the title? > > So, "Who the fuck is Tom Walker?" My name appeared four days ago in a > thread on Econjobrumors.com that I will present as exhibit "A" for > Schumacher's diagnosis of denial, aggression and escapism. These > people are -- purportedly -- grad students in Economics. > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework >
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