Re: OT: Bertrand Russell- In Praise of Idleness

[ThomasClark123]

In a message dated 5/4/2006 10:11:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. B.F. Skinner in his book Walden II, shows us how we can all live comfortably working only part-time. If only some rich millionaires had built B.F. Skinners Walden II towns 50 years ago, we would all be living in them today, and working part-time with plenty of leisure time. I read one book on Utopian Societies, that projected that in the Future no one will need to work or use money in the United Kingdom.  With robotic technologies, work will be less in the future, so that even part time work may be a luxury.  In the future, we may all become artists and actors and each have our own TV channel and 15 minutes of fame as Any Wharhol claimed, since we may have nothing more to do with our time than entertain ourselves.   Why didn't B.F. Skinner's Walden II towns get built one may ask?  Not because of lack of funs, theory or inactive for sure.  Such B.F. Skinner Walden II town ideas could be built today in small shared cooperative apartment complexes in every city for a mere 10 million dollars as I have proposed as posted at [Secure Apartments and Condominiums] and at http://www.rhfweb.com/neighs.html and at the links below:   Some typical self-sustaining socialistic community trust packages may include:   Self sustaining apartment complex trust with a shared community center [Secure Apartments and Condominiums] & factory trust [ Universal Multipurpose Factories © ] or entertainment center trust [Entertainment Clubs] packages. Self-sustaining small neighborhood or small town trust [Prefabricated Community Model Schematic ] [Secure Gated Community Plans and Designs ] & [Updated Planned Community Designs, Models, and Investment Goals] with shared community center and/or  & factory trust [ Universal Multipurpose Factories © ] or entertainment center trust [Entertainment Clubs], and university trust [ Folk Town & University Trusts © Home Web Page  at URL: www.rhfweb.com/ft], [Folk Town & Folk University Plans]  packages.   The above proposed self-sustaining neighborhood community trust ideas are posted at the following web links for further information:   [Prefabricated Community Model Schematic ] [ Secure & self-sustaining mini-mega pyramid communities  ] [Prefabricated, automated, secure, & self sustaining community plans & technologies ]   [ Universal Multipurpose Factories © ] [Secure Private Banking ©] [Secure Motel-Transportation-Security Services © ] [International Law Court, Security, & Environmental Protection Agency © ] [Gentlemen's & Lady's Militia ©  ] [ The Starlight Entertainment Society Trust Co ©. ]   [Enchanted Fairy Tale Forest Ether Force Field Energy Creation Plans] [Germanic Story Book Black Forest and Celtic Estate Plans] [Story Book Secure Self Sustaining Gated Community Plans] [Underground Community Plans]   [ About Community Manager] [Community Virtual Reality Model and Object Data Structures] [Community Members & Managers Online Programs] ] [Community Manager Main Menu Screen]   [Community Virtual Reality Manager Program ]     Best Regards,   Baron Volsung, www.rhfweb.com/baron President Thomas D. Clark, Email form: http://www.rhfweb.com/emailform.html, Personal Web Page: http://www.rhfweb.com/personal.html Architectural Engineers, http://www.rhfweb.com/ae Star Haven Community Services, at http://www.rhfweb.com/sh Radiation Health Foundation Trust at http://www.rhfweb.com/ Baron Volsung, www.rhfweb.com/baron Making a difference one person at a time Get informed. Inform others