The great American novel could have the title "Busyness"
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:10 AM
To: Charles Brass
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Immense productivity (was Re: 35-hour week scrapped
Charles Brass wrote:
>
> At the risk of upsetting Tom Walker (again), can I just interject here
that
> perhaps the most prominent reason why a reduced working week is not being
> achieved is because human beings have a high desire to 'do something
> productive' with their lives (and here I agree with Keith Hudson that at
the
> moment the most obvious way of knowing we have been productive is if we
have
> consumed more) and until we come up with better ways to let people feel
> productive and useful (in sustainable ways) they will continue to be
> 'addicted' to their job.
[snip]
That's why I would like to be able to retire: To be able to
be productive. (Maybe I would write The Great American Novel
I keep thinking about: "WASTE" -- a sort of sequel to
Frank Norris's "MacTeague", AKA Eric von Stroheim's
epic film: "Greed")
\brad mccormick
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