On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Ok, but what then? " > > At the risk of totally alienating the hipsters on this list with my > "certain lack of imagination", I will take the liberty of mentioning that I > wrote a BOOK on this topic, the unpublished manuscript of which has been > available on SCRIBD for about five years > Wow, a lot of things to process there. First of all, so *I* am the mysterious hipster on PEN-L? I had no idea. I looked up the term and I am not sure if I should be flattered or insulted. But I will do my best to play my part I guess. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster Secondly, Scribd??? You are clearly no hipster! > Most of my posts to PEN-L on the topic have gone without reply. > Gee, you think that should tell you something? If I wrote a lot of blog posts that furiously insisted that the earth is round, should I be surprised or indignant if they went without reply? > What I have proposed instead is the formation of new kinds of collective > institutions that have ample precedent in existing institutions. > Perhaps you could indulge me and give me one example of what one such collective institution should look like and more importantly how it translates into politics that I can get involved in. And I mean that sincerely: I am fully convinced by your program. I simply do not know how to accomplish it. You have a plan? Tell me how I can help. I have no objection to policy proposals like paid family leave. They may > even open space for more in depth discussion of the issue of working time. > But such policy proposals do not begin to address the fundamental problem > of the ecological unsustainability of wage labor, capital accumulation and > industrial-scale conversion of habitat to toxic waste. > I am genuinely glad to hear this. They are not much by themselves, but you are wrong: they do *begin* to address the fundamental problems. The point is they are just a beginning and the question is what are you going to do with them? Mock and dismiss them, or build on them? -raghu.
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