Things over people. It's interesting that in the "Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm there was another hope. However my experience at the seminary is that Fromm was an aberration. It's all about cash and blood.
There is, however a groundswell. Beneath all of this entitlement there are thousands of great thinkers and artists who are of the same religion, who have learned humanism from their Art and philosophy from Engineering. A cold connection to logic and awareness of difficulty not being external but being mere incompetence in the children of affluence. (As for the offspring of affluence, think of the people who went after Obama as a Nazi and you will get the type of thinking that I mean.) The Foundation is that it's not the name but the deed. To merely call a name is really a "curse." Say it four times an you practicing witchcraft. Good theory and strong methodology are both subverted by a poor foundation and an awareness of the abstract processes lying beneath the theory and methods. If you are going to be a part of a performance process then the name is irrelevant. The curse is returned to the sender. You have to have a foundation. It matters what you do on stage and whether your audience is prepared for you. If they are not your competence is irrelevant. If they are and you are under prepared and poorly conceptualized you will miss the boat. Today we are on a hero's journey in the theory of economics. The hyper individual. I remember the hyper individual as "blut uber alles" and "arbeit mach frei." The Yonega governments still follow those old ethnic rules that we fought to divest ourselves of in WWII. But once they won the war, they brought them back themselves. No one says anymore that a perpetual war is a failure of religion because they know nothing of the purpose of the religion and are used to it's being practiced miserably. For me, religion is the pure concern with transcendent reality. Everyone has an Ultimate Concern and everyone believes in the future so they have some sense of transcendence. To say that they have no God is to say that they have no core reality and no sense of a future or hope. I don't care what you call it but if you don't have balance in your life, you are in great danger from yourself. Labor is not a thing. A lump. Labor is people. Civilization happens for the development of human capital and the evolution of spirit. Labor is just a word brought by someone who struggled at math and tried to relate it to the whole of reality as the only abstraction. It's a good tool but you never hear these folks using the musical score for their math. And yet philosophers point to the musical score as a superior literary system for aural abstractions to math. Actually I'm just quoting people I've read who know more math than I do. I suspect Einstein had the best idea. Do both. For some it's rhythm. Some of the world's greatest physicists were percussionists in their spare time. Moving two tempos at once in two different drums makes relativity practical. Powwow drummers have been doing it for thousands of years with four people on one drum. Metronome makers did it for Beethoven who couldn't do it. Brahms and Chopin developed whole methods to teach it to the mono-rhythmic Europeans. Like Spielberg said: It will take a close encounter with a musical alien to get the human race to open their ears and they will do it only because they are afraid of people who sing and play the organ as they escape the boundaries of the Universe. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael gurstein Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:14 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospelof Automation Well at one point having owned/operated a parking lot I can tell you that not having an extra pair of hands between the cash and the accounts probably adds 30% or more to the revenues realized. (The folks working the parking lots I was familiar with were all displaced professionals from one war torn country or another and weren't by any means intellectually deprived--they were however, being thwarted by Canadian credentialing systems that didn't acknowledge their quite considerable expertise and training. M From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:08 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospelof Automation Also lost when machines replaced "guys" is another pair of eyes and ears that not only collected money but also kept a look out on events on and off the lot. The latter function is slowly being replaced by security cameras. Cameras can catch the images and store them, a person can see what is going on and help a person or perhaps deter or stop a crime in progress. Arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:39 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospelof Automation Nevertheless, I feel sorry for the guys that have been replaced by machines when you drive in and out of parking lots. But I guess it serves them right for not being smart enough to get better jobs? Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Sally Lerner <mailto:[email protected]> To: Arthur Cordell <mailto:[email protected]> ; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOMEDISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospelof Automation Just to go on record, I share Arthur's positive response to automation (why should people do dumb, dirty or dangerous work that can be done by machines? - science-fiction fears aside) and also his conviction that many social changes - not least in education and distribution of "goods" - will be needed to ensure the equitable spread of benefits. Believe it or not, these issues were at the core of Futurework's genesis. Sally _____ From: Arthur Cordell [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:12 PM To: Sally Lerner; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: RE: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation The jobs gained (quality and quantity) will be very different than the jobs lost. Cars are rated in horsepower since that is what they replaced; computers rated in memory since to some degree that is what they replace...very broadly speaking. Arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lerner Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation Well, it could go either way? 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