Bravo! You got it. I get it. Who else gets it? How long before everyone does?
Ray Evans Harrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: Or poorer -- clarification please! > Harry Pollard wrote: > > > > Brad wrote: > > > > >Anyway, back to the free market of individuals who > > >split into consumers and workers: > > > > No they aren't. They are merely two aspects of the same person. > > Yes, that is precisely the source of the problem: > Qua "consumer", the person pursues the lowest > possible price. Qua "worker", the same person > pursues the highest possible wage -- or at least > a living wage. The individual spends all his or her > time screwing himself over and trying to stop > himself from doing it -- BUT! Big but! The > person does not realize they are doing this to themself, > because when the person is seeking the lowest price > is during "free time", whereas when the person > is trying to get a decent wage is during "working hours". > > How many workers do not "put the office out of their > mind" when they punch out? > > The psychoanalytic word is: > > SPLITTING > > although psychoanalysts generally have > a pretty poor track record of dealing with > the damage working conditions under capitalism > do to persons. > > The nadir here is an article > by Freud's stoolie Karl Abraham, from 1907, > concerning one working class woman who > avoided dealing with her problems not being > happy as a servant by succeeding in getting > a higher-class job. Did I make that > clear: The woman *evaded dealing with her > [psychological] problem of being unhappy being > a servant, by getting a higher-class job where > the things that so greatly distressed her did > not get done to her any more*! > > In the annals of "treasonous clerks", I > submit for nomination medical doctor Karl > Abraham. He should have been sentenced to > what he worked hard to prevent persons from > escaping: working in Polish > coal mines (Abraham was a disability certification > doctor, as well as a "psychoanalyst"). > > \brad mccormick > > > > > Harry > > > > ****************************** > > Harry Pollard > > Henry George School of LA > > Box 655 > > Tujunga CA 91042 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > > ******************************* > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 10/15/2002 > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
