> OK Justin maybe we should be clear about something right of -- Im not arguing Chuck's technophobic
> primativist utopia. No serious person aside from perhaps Chuck or certain reactionary "anarchist"
> currents, imagines society as an amalgam of primitive individuals totally bereft of any form of
> discipline or compulsion.
I'm not arguing a primitivist utopia anymore than anybody here is arguing a socialist utopia or a Green Party utopia. Please take my arguments seriously before giving me a label that I reject.
> Distasteful work will still have to be done and peoples' social obligations
> will still have to be met.
I never argued that distasteful work will be avoided. However, there is a difference between alienated work that only serves to create profit and shitty work that people need to do to live. Cleaning a toilet can be distasteful work for many people. Working in a cubicle or factory is alienating for most people.
Isn't this like basic Marxist and socialist theory?
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An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us."
(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).