Posted on 06/12/2008 10:10:01 PM PDT by Looking4Truth
Working toward a world without work
We have an assumption in America that work is good regardless of what work you are doing. Often the work we do is damaging to the environment, establishing wage slavery in the developing world, supporting war or some combination.
The Hopi have prophesied World War III, and now you see why. Truthfully, our economic system should be gearing us, and in cooperation with the rest of the world, to a work-free life.
There is no reason intrinsically that we need to work a 60-hour week only to discover that we are actually promoting WW III by our work.
Imagine a workday that was designed, once and for all, to sustain the lives of everyone in the world so that we didn't have to work anymore? That is the real goal.
We should be gearing up for a life of personal fulfillment of our passions, not just rote labor. Eventually, even maintenance will be passe.
We could then live in harmony with the environment, benefiting with one another worldwide. Right now we are simply the slaves we allow ourselves to be. Imagine that day of freedom and utopia all over the world. Viva solar panels!
SETH LEONARD BLACKSBURG
Yep, liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
Counting the ones he stuck up his nose?
Seth needs a little love and understanding, that’s all.
Seth Leonard, activist, shleonard@gmail.com
1757 Ginger Lane
Blacksburg, VA 24060
540-961-1523
Or be elected to office as a dem...
Mark
The solar panel issue is interesting. Besides other possible maintenance, the collection surface has to be kept reasonably clean or efficiency plummets.
That’s a lot of glass to keep clean.
The local weekly “alternative” paper recently had an article about the wonderful people who live (quite well, sometimes) by scavenging from trash cans and so forth rather than working. It glorified this lifestyle as environmentally sound and all that.
For one thing, it sounds like some of them actually work pretty hard at it.
For another, the article nowhere pointed out that this lifestyle is only possible because our society produces so much that it is able to waste a lot, leaving plenty for the scavengers.
They are parasites on society, on those of us who actually work and produce things.
Nothing inherently wrong with that. We can afford a certain number of parasites. The idiocy is the theory that being a parasite is morally superior to being a producer, or the alternative theory that we can all be parasites.
ping
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