Like the paradigms of our financial, relational and communication systems that are changing with no clear new paradigm to move into, it is not hard to imagine that "work" in our life can change with these, especially the financial paradigms. Were many now are unemployed or underemployed, and those employed treated like commodities and worked way beyond the limits of the law, a system that honors the life of a person and offers real team work instead of the current cardboard cut out of it would be welcome. I see more work arounds than honest work, simply because they are necessary.
On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 12:35:04 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Today's bureaucratic organisational forms almost certainly arise in > Germany and the United States We live in a time when we need something > more poetic, positive and fantastic. To understand this we need to see > almost everything is not as it seems and as we are told. By poetic > technologies, I mean the use of rational, technical, bureaucratic means to > bring wild, impossible fantasies to life. Universities produce reams of > paper telling us all we foster imagination and creativity in an environment > in which the barest glimpse of this in the eyes is strangled at birth. To > my shame I have been known to toss research proposals of grad students in > the bin, declaring them potentially original. The kids look bemused when I > tell them that to do original research they have to do something already > understood, otherwise no one will understand their creativity. A timid, > bureaucratic spirit has come to suffuse every aspect of academic life. > This is cloaked in a language of creativity, initiative and > entrepreneurialism, probably from a CEO who is a sex pest and rips off the > college for a Bentley, a house loan and job for his unqualified girlfriend. > My view is this is modern Americanism and most of the world has been > suckered by it. > > The odd student picks her submission out of the bin and asks how she might > get the work done while pretending to do something else. > > On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 3:36:57 AM UTC+1, archytas wrote: >> >> Work looks like it is 90% bullshit these days. Reward is closer to 99% >> bull. We could obviously look sensibly into such matters, establishing >> what needs doing and apportioning it fairly. Something is in the way, >> including our own fears on personal idleness and being made to work harder >> once management finds out we spend most of our work time avoiding work. >> Thinking this through is tough, so you can bet 90% of people won't try. >> >> On Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:16:06 UTC+1, archytas wrote: >>> >>> Don't make me into a holy liberal Don! Though I am no longer a believer >>> we remotely do things as you say - such may have been true when we were >>> being dragged up I never liked losing much. You'd have to think on >>> whether I want to screw the work ethic or find one that works. You can't >>> seriously tell me you believe there is much link between bending your back >>> and reward these days, except in hay rolling. >>> >>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 2:12:40 AM UTC+1, Don Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> Soviet yes, paradise no. Why on God's green earth would you want to >>>> destroy the work ethic? The problem with kids today is they don't have >>>> one. >>>> Not only that, they aren't even ashamed about it! Work still has to be >>>> done >>>> Neil who's going to do it? Sure the hell not me I'd rather teach others >>>> the >>>> work ethic I never quite absorbed. Leading by example is too exhausting. >>>> That's for younsters. And immigrants. How do we find out who the best and >>>> brightest are? Testing? That's infamously unreliable. We find out by >>>> giving >>>> kids tasks and seeing how well they complete them and how well they deal >>>> with failure and what they do to recover. Separates the winners from the >>>> losers. There is no existance without losers Neil. They are as necesary as >>>> food and water. Fail some today, learn, and succeed tomorrow. Boom and >>>> bust. (see what i did there?) >>>> >>>> dj >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 2:18:56 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Primitive societies are much more egalitarian and murderous than ours. >>>>> I've never done first contact. Playing rugby league in PNG was enough >>>>> for >>>>> me. First contact would be a good place for people who protest at the >>>>> use >>>>> of words like primitive to understand it is a mistake to leave the AK-M >>>>> behind. The idea that there ever was a paradise to regain is likely >>>>> tosh, >>>>> though you can imagine we might have had to regress to enter this >>>>> universe >>>>> and evolve to current awareness through various stages - and still carry >>>>> the baggage of the dinosaurs and so on. >>>>> >>>>> People have strange notions about government. I can make a case that >>>>> the USA is now the paradigm case of the Soviet Paradise. It's pretty >>>>> obvious that none of us get to vote for government, but rather something >>>>> more akin to union representatives who negotiate with the bankers and >>>>> crooks who run the show, though the union concerned is a house or >>>>> sweet-heart one. Surely, not even Sartre could come up with a play so >>>>> dull >>>>> it was about people seeking freedom through voting Clinton, Bush, >>>>> Cameron, >>>>> Milliband or Hollande - Sarkoszy! You nearly had that utter weirdo who >>>>> ran >>>>> a bit of Alaska until it turned out she was banged by a black guy when at >>>>> college. >>>>> >>>>> Would anyone want to deny the US is now a Soviet Paradise? I still >>>>> meet a few Europeans who believe they live in a democracy or might if >>>>> they >>>>> vote fascist. The job looks so screwed to me that I think we should >>>>> start >>>>> again. You'd think this would be pretty straight-forward if we lived in >>>>> an >>>>> open and democratic society. >>>>> >>>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
