We can start by cleaning up the language of economics that declares widgets
progressive and symphony orchestras stagnant. Then we can deal with such
things as productivity and values i.e. only that which is useful has utility
and utility equals human pleasure, (one of the dumber statements of the last
three hundred years, don't you think?). Then we can declare a serious
study of work and why it is important to both individuals and society beyond
simple cash payment. Got to go to rehearsal.
REH
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> My immediate response is what have we all lost in the name of progress?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magic Circ Op Rep Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: April 23, 2001 11:16 AM
> To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Yes but Arthur, that's art not economics. So what is the future of
work?
> Art, consciousness, family and community or economics, factories, Taylor
> dummies and breeding as the sole meaning of existance? It matters not
if
> they have billions if the sole meaning of it is to buy another house in
> Paris and to watch their children never learn the lessons that they took
for
> granted in the Bronx. Better to live in Paris than to own a house and
> visit. To be human is to have empathy. What have they lost in order
to
> become "Captains of Industry?"
>
> REH
>
>
>
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> > I can't shake the feeling that the factory farming of chickens evolved
in
> a
> > slow bottom line way and the end of the day we all came to realize that
> > while prices are low we have all lost something.
> >
> > The Mondrian landscape that marks our offices and office buildings all
> > reflect the stunning insight of building spaces on the sole criterion of
> > price per square foot. Before price per square foot and bottom line
> > thinking came to dominate, we created public and some private structures
> > with high ceilings, some ornamental work, columns, a sense of space and
> > aesthetics.
> >
> > Arthur Cordell
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Magic Circ Op Rep Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: April 22, 2001 10:32 PM
> > To: Ed Weick; Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
> >
> >
> > One of the things that I've noticed about the Internationalist school is
> > that materials show their wear more than the decorated materials. They
> are
> > also easier to clean. The Lever House here and Seagrams Buildings are
> > masterworks but they tend to look more like the more mediocre structures
> as
> > they age. Age may suggest maturity in the second picture while it
> > probably suggests decay in the former. I don't agree that Mies is
about
> > materials. I tend to see more geometric shapes that materials are
> tortured
> > into.
> >
> > The Frank Lloyd Wright buildings are more about materials in that they
> take
> > the textures not from rectanglular and curved corners but the unique
> shape
> > of a texture or the Plasticity of repeated geometric shapes in poured
> > concrete creating an endless originality. One being about form the
> other
> > having form grow from organic content. But these are old arguments. I
> > personally enjoy both structures and points of view. Like Mozart next
> to
> > Richard Strauss. Mozart is your box.
> >
> > I'm not sure what the old one is. The issue of comfort is an
> interesting
> > one. Each cubicle has the quality of being connected to the whole
while
> > retaining a sense of space albiet not ownership. That is one of the
> > reasons I never teach in schools. I feel a profound need to own the
> space
> > I think in. That is my personal spacial capital which ties to my
ability
> > to function. Interesting thoughts Brad.
> >
> > Thanks for the sharing.
> >
> > REH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 6:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
> >
> >
> > > Brad,
> > >
> > > What can one conclude from this except that the soul is not necessary
to
> > > modern work, or perhaps it is? Your new surroundings would, like a
> > Trappist
> > > monestary, seem more supportive to meditation, your old ones to
> > creativity.
> > > Creativity may be out; meditation in. Have courage.
> > >
> > > Ed Weick
> > >
> > > Visit my rebuilt website at:
> > > http://members.eisa.com/~ec086636/
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 3:33 PM
> > > Subject: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
> > >
> > >
> > > > The company I work for produces leading-edge high-end computer
> > software --
> > > > indeed one might call it "meta-ware", since it analyzes other
> > > > computer hardware and software....
> > > >
> > > > Attached is a link to a picture I took recently of one section
> > > > of the space into which the company moved
> > > > a few months ago. The building is a huge
> > > > black megalith (no, it isn't a message from higher
> > > > intelligences like the megalith in 2001...),
> > > > approx 280ft x 280ft by 20 stories high (the company
> > > > I work for occupies most of the 4th floor).
> > > > The building looks to me like a Mies van der Rohe done cheap (Mies
> > > > believed in the "luxury of materials") -- but maybe it is
> > > > a real Mies???
> > > >
> > > > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/Office2000.jpg
> > > >
> > > > When the company first moved to the new space, I was
> > > > frightened to even be in the space (I think the
> > > > correct term for this is: "horror vacui"). (Picture of my
> > > > former work area in the company's former
> > > > premises, which were in an "old building":
> > > >
> > > > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/office4.jpg
> > > >
> > > > .)
> > > >
> > > > After about 4 months, I feel much better accommodated to the new
space
> > > > than I originally felt. Humans are highly "adaptable".
> > > >
> > > > "Enjoy!"
> > > >
> > > > The worker's lifeworld is a co-product of all work.
> > > >
> > > > +\brad mccormick
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
> > > >
> > > > [ I am looking for a Waltham Premier Maximus pocket watch in
> > > > excellent condition. Any "leads" much appreciated. Thank you. ]
> > > >
> > > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA
> > > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
> > >
