At 14:15 03/10/2010 -0700, Sandwichman wrote (in a civilized and
non-abusive way):
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Christoph Reuss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Do you really believe that 21st-century Future of work can be determined
> by a 1843 Predator (i.e. a technical illiterate)? You must be kidding.
>
> Chris
The lad doth protest too much, methinks. I'm reminded of the 'family
values' Republicans who time and again get caught with their pants
down on the wrong side of town. Or the law and order zealots taking
kick-backs from mobsters.
As a shorter work time advocate even I must confess to the hypocrisy
of burning the midnight oil for the cause of leisure. But this
one-note refrain of "predator" leaves me especially unconvinced. For
starters there's the black and white dichotomy of predators and prey.
No colors. No shades of gray. Dichotomy is the cradle for delusion.
Precisely. And I would gently suggest to one or two FW subscribers who find
it hard to accept, that human society is instinctively predisposed to a
multitude of status levels, each generally deferring to the one above, and
each generally "predating", as it were, on the next one lower down. And
predation occurs in many guises, physical, financial -- even verbal.
Keith
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