o I got 'The Abolition of Work' by Bob Black, off ACTIVEDISTRIBUTION.Orgy (I put the Y in myself) and people, it answered many a brain dispute for me, things are a little clearer, I no longer feel I must be a complete failure at life for not WANTING to work. Also for why I always never agreed with school much. Wage monkies.Mr Black wants to see work turned in to play.
Here are my most favoured -
"...Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital..
...You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or a monastery. In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each others control techniques. A worker is a part time slave.
..The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called 'insubordination,' just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation. Without necessary endorsing it for them either, it is noteworthy that children at home and in school recieve much the same treatment, justified in their case by their supposed immaturity. What does this say about their parents ans teachers who work?..
...To grasp the full enormity of our deteriation, however, consider the earliest condition of humanity, without government or property, when we wandered as hunter-gatherers. Hobbes surmised that life was then nasty, brutish and short. Others assume that life was a desperate unremitting struggle for subsistence, a war waged against a harsh nature with death and disaster awaiting the unlucky or anyone who was unequal to the challenge of the struggle for existence. Actually, that was all a projection of fears for the collapse of government authority over communities unaccustomed to doing without it...
...As Smith observed: "The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations... has no occasion to exert his understanding... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." Here, in a few blunt words, is my critique of work...
...Art would be taken back from the snobs and collectors, abolished as a specialised department catering to an elite audience, and its qualities of beauty and creation restored to integral life form which they were stolen by work, Its a sobering thought that the Grecian urns we write odes about and showcase is museums were used in their own time to store olive oil. I doubt our everyday artifacts will fare as well in the future, if there is one.
...There is much more to play than than game-playing. Conversation, sex, dancing, travel -- these practices aren't rule governed but they are surely play if anything is. And rules can be played with at least as readily as anything else."
END FUCKING QUOTE!
What do you reckon?
I want to redistibute this to the world..
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