> 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