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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:57:51 -0400
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- From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@MAYA.ISIS.ORG>
- Subject: Re: Fuller's History of Industrialization
- In-Reply-To: <92Sep13.211129edt.9839@mail.uunet.ca> (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
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- In <92Sep13.211129edt.9839@mail.uunet.ca> van@teal.csn.org writes:
- >
- > Since I am now "the boss", I have learned to my great regret that there are
- > few around with the work ethic my partner and I seem to have accidentally
- > developed. It seems that in most strata, people are interested in mainly
- > what kind of benefits they can "get" rather than what kind of benefits they
- > can "earn".
-
- I challenge your ideal and with it bring the missing element that
- explains why you are unable to propagate your obsolete (in Fuller's
- view) goal:
-
- "A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and out life
- depends on the labours of others, living and dead, and that I must
- exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am
- still receiving" -- Albert Einstein
-
- A far better "work ethic" is Camus' "True generosity toward the
- future" accomplished by giving your all for the present. The Japanese
- have a time-proven technique for generating this more positive
- sentiment, the techniques of Naikan (for more information see any of
- the books by David K Reynolds). In Fuller's view, there is no need to
- 'earn a living', citing the "lilies of the field" as his starting
- point, his own life as proof. If you are being useful to the maximum
- number of humanity, you will be retained as an integral part of
- Reality. It is because you are boss and your employees and clients
- need you that makes you successful; effort alone just won't do it, and
- it is that failure of your teaching that makes some of your students
- give up in frustration.
-
- > The part of Critical Path that bugs me is that when I see people willing to
- > let others support them without *any* desire to participate in activities
- > beneficial to society -- in fact some are even willing to *hurt* society and
- > still feel they have earned a welcome place in it -- I get upset.
-
- You don't talk to these people much, do you. In Fuller's view, once
- they no longer think they _must_ "earn a living", ghetto kids, being
- as rich (ie fabulously) as any other kid on the planet, will cease to
- feel they are disadvantaged. Why do we have repressive regimes?
- Greed. Why do we have have-nots? Greed. In Fuller's plan, greed
- becomes rediculous and obsolete. Like Pierre Elliot Trudeau's thesis,
- the most important job will be Consumer. It is the flow of goods and
- the exchange of capital that makes it all work now, and some bright
- young exec with his Lotus 1-2-3 is bound to discover what Universe has
- known all along.
-
- > I have known mothers on welfare who starve their kids, use the ADC money up
- > on clothes and booze to attract more men. I have seen fathers rescue these
- > kids from the situation - providing food, clothing, love and then well meaning
- > social workers find the child and put them back in the mother's care. I have
- > seen
- > at least 3 situations like this out of 10 or 12 welefare situations I know
- > about.
-
- Welfare would also be obsolete, and all the kids material needs met.
- In giving our all to them, they become consumers, and that has the
- industrial equation providing for more, which makes it more efficient,
- which makes it richer ... it is a feedback loop the WorldGame
- Institute already has evidence to prove. Brace yourself! It is
- inevitable.
-
- > I just feel that the world needs to have some kind of a reward and punishment
- > system so that behaviors that benefit society will be encouraged.
-
- Just so long as you agree with which behaviours have official
- sanction? Please keep your witch-hunting off this list. We here are
- interested in a better world, not more of the same.
-
- --
- Gary Lawrence Murphy -- garym@maya.isis.org -- (613) 230-6255
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- "The present moment is a powerful goddess." - Goethe
-