I like the way you are not being trapped by the logic of the top layers but looking beneath to the underlying processes that transcend the rhetoric of private property and inequality. I have seen individual wealth that is mind boggling and larger than nations. It is devastating on the individuals and their children. It does not serve the nation that invested in them and it does not serve the individuals either. In fact it simply guarantees that should they be challenged they will immigrate with their wealth, like the cattle they are, to the next home in another country. That being said. I am for private property and I would not take that wealth away. I'm not a thief but I would not propagate such atrocities further. I do not worship money nor use it to inspire my work or family. Nor do I believe its good or that its good for the people whose life becomes enmeshed in simple monetary growth. (see below)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "G. Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Workloads :: From each to each for each.... > I will never tire of hypothesizing (until proven wrong) that > rich families and the social circles of the aristoi > (you know, the Wiliam F Buckleyocracy...) -- in the > way they treat each other as opposed to the > way they treat their upderlings --, > are not capitalistic but communistic (or simply > gracious, which is, for me, the constructive > epitome of communism). > > But, back to earth, I will also never tire > of repeating a sign my father said was in the mess hall > when he was in the Air Corps in WWII (we note that > the military is not run as a free market, probably > because it's too important to leave to the > whims of the invisible fickle finger of fate...). I worked for six years in the Army Chorus in Washington, D.C. I was paid a minimum wage and a housing allowance, was given free medical care for me and my family and my job had enough free time for me to supplement the limitations of that work experience with outside entrepreneurial work and I had more money than I do today. I wasn't wealthy nor could I afford a GI loan for a home but my work life was satisfying and I had good students and developed fine choirs as well as singing in the highest echelons. The way I got that plum job was I auditioned and received one of those 40 jobs out of the entire nation during a time of war when everyone was trying to get them. Instead of the Army paying for my training they benefited from my expertise paid for by me ($150,000 education in the 1960s) and they got that expertise through a simple audition. Doctors got the same deal with the same costly education but they were officers as well and had better housing. But that doesn't matter. I was young and too inexperienced to know what it was and what it meant. We also had the PX for cheap goods and the Commissary for cheap food. In short I lived and worked in a mixed socialist/capitalist system. It was developed because soldiers are important and expensive and expendable. We die easily. If the average person was considered the same value to the society as are the soldiers then we could use our brains more creatively than we are willing to do at present. That is what I have been saying and will continue to repeat. We have to come up with answers that are life based and that work in reality and create a society that develops human potential rather than mining it. I say that, having spent the first seventeen years of my life in the disaster of the mining camp and its mentality. It has destroyed my health and haunted my life from childhood. It is inhumane and stupid. We are capable of better models and morals. I like what you said Brad and I believe you are thinking "process" rather than code trigger words that enslave. This is not rhetoric but life experience and the ability to imagine a better way. Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director The American Masters Arts Festival Biennial [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Take what you want, eat what you take. > > > This sounds very good to me. It's also the > kind of ecology-mindedness that it seems to me > is not deprivative. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > 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/ > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
