>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>>>> ...
>>>> Moreover, work time should be as short as possible.
>
>Gordon:
>> >Well, what about all these people who think that labor --
>> >hard, difficult labor -- is spiritually meaningful, even
>> >ennobling, that it connects them with humankind in some profound
>> >way?
>
>Yoshie Furuhashi:
>> Well, if they insist on "hard, difficult labor," I suppose a
>> socialist society can oblige them: create a special "temple of labor"
>> -- modelled upon Zen temples in Japan, perhaps, but without any
>> modern conveniences -- where they can spend their free time
>> spiritualizing themselves through such tasks as cleaning, sweeping,
>> carrying water, rearranging stone gardens, etc.
>
>That's play. The work has to be _needed_.
Exactly -- what Chuck Grimes, etc. have been talking about is _play_, as Carrol, etc. pointed out some time ago.
Yoshie