Workers of the world...relax

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Wed Oct 2 07:03:44 PDT 2002



> Well Dennis, did you even read the essay?? Abolition of work does not mean
> the end of activity but, sure, it means an unleashing of creative force to
> deal with certain things that you mention in a way that will directly
> benefit you and not to the benefit of Wall Street.


> Who would be doing all the work you mentioned? Well I guess you and I
would
> Dennis. None of what you mentioned is all that specialized and we could
> learn the basic skills pretty quickly. Even most of the medical industry
is
> wastefulness and is a product of the unhealthy lifestyle that the modern
> capitalist arrangement of life engenders (everything from diet to mental
> numbing). Anyhow, read the essay because I think it addresses all of your
> questions...


> Greg Lipman


> http://www.zpub.com/notes/black-work.html


> We were talking about abolition of coerced labour. Maybe you got confused?
>
> Bill Bartlett

Thank you both -- and yes Greg, I'll read the essay. (Anything about robots in there?)

Bob Black, eh? I used to date a young woman (well before my current married bourgeois existence) who was a big Black fan, always tried to get me to read him, which I never did, as I was busy reading Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker and Max Stirner, for whom I had a perverse fascination. She was a former model who had worked professionally with Brooke Shields, quite beautiful, which she hated, and this, I guess, led her to become a feminist-anarchist-vegetarian. She wanted an Abolition of Beauty, stopped shaving her legs and pits, bathed maybe once a week, and her apartment reeked of used cat litter. Didn't matter -- she was still pretty hot despite her attempts to disfigure herself, which stopped just short of her slicing up her face with a piece of broken McDonalds window.

Rad politics works wonders on the psyche, no?

DP



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