dmb,
My son loves his career. A few weeks ago he told
me that he wakes up at 4:00 a.m. with great
excitement on the days he's to go to his
workplace. He's said many times he cannot
believe he is lucky enough to get paid for what
he does. He's a firefighter. As a mother, I do
not know what more I could wish for my child.
Marsha
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At 09:52 AM 5/1/2009, you wrote:
Arlo and y'all:
I'm thinking that dualistic technology and the
meaninglessness of what passes for a
"productive" life is actually just a relatively
new extension of a very, very old problem. I'll
name just three points here. Slavery is as old
as civilization itself. For their sins, Adam and
Eve were CURSED with a lifetime of toil.
According to Plato, craftsman were very low on
the scale of goodness and truth. On his scale,
only the artists and poets were lower. These are
just a few of the reasons that Monday morning
rush hour is a great funeral procession. Work or
die? Are those really are only choices? Why
should it be a form of captivity, a form of
punishment, or so far from truth? Jeez, what a
nightmare. That's enough to make a slacker out
of anyone. That's enough to make a guy suicidal.
Or maybe its just me. You know, cause I grew up
in Detroit. It all seemed so pointlessly
circular to me. Drive to work in your car, where
you make cars for the sake of getting money so
you can afford a car so you can go to work and
make more cars. I tend to agree with Willard,
the hero in Apocalypse Now, who said, "You don't
get a chance to know what the fuck you are
working in some factory in Ohio". For him, that
option was so unappealing that he would rather
face death in the jungle. Maybe that's a bit too dramatic but I can relate.
Arlo quoted ZAMM:"It is this identity that is
the basis of craftsmanship in all the technical
arts. And it is this identity that modern,
dualistically conceived technology lacks. The
creator of it feels no particular sense of
identity with it. The owner of it feels no
particular sense of identity with it. The user
of it feels no particular sense of identity with
it. Hence, by Phædrus' definition, it has no
Quality." (ZMM) "People arrive at a factory and
perform a totally meaningless task from eight to
five without question because the structure
demands that it be that way. There's no villain,
no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless
lives, it's just that the structure, the system
demands it and no one is willing to take on the
formidable task of changing the structure just
because it is meaningless." (ZMM)
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