October 13, 2004
Leisure Life
"Capitalism's crime is not that it makes us work too much, but that it makes us work too little." -- Mol Tse
It's a bad mistake to think of leisure as a human's natural state, best state, or worst of all, his right.
The bonds formed on the basis of leisure, often masked under the concept of "free association," are weak and ineffectual. Give me the hot fusion of compulsion any day. Moreover, unless we are referring to the leisure of the jobless and destitute, leisure rests on a bloody pedestal. Thinking of leisure as our "right" can only be clamoring to be let up.
Even a minor thought, such as "I shouldn't have to work this hard" can be an opening to this error. It is important to be clear what (or, might I suggest, who) this "should" relates us to. Not the fantasy-world of leisure -- this is obscurantism.
Posted by Sam at October 13, 2004 06:53 AM
big time stuff
here
one caveat
pushed to a polarized system some pushed to far to squeeze out the last drop of exploitation
others left idle
thats profit max solution
when run in fragments
firm by private firm
remember the quote
the failure of the exploiter
in his own terms
is when he has to support
his exploited
in stead of thenm supporting him
to shift as much of the support
of the unemployed
from the exploiter to the exploited
as possible
is a mission of private capital
their state becomes the tax and transfer mechanism
payroll taxation
is a three peat
wage fund ibt
payroll tax
income tax out of work income
bang bang bang
and some goes to cover
the full up keep
of the unemployed
Posted by: pinky at October 13, 2004 04:28 PM
u got that bound strength thing zappo
the productive fusion is humankind's
highest calling
and highest glory and happiness
check out the exploiters work house
no joy
in that mud bath iz there
exploitation robs uz
of the joy of joint production
storming the target
why bother
when the man gets all the gravy
and to love the process for itself
makes you what?
a sucker
Posted by: meat me at October 13, 2004 04:34 PM
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. What spark of humanity, of a possible creativity, can remain alive in a being dragged out of sleep at six every morning, jolted about in suburban trains, deafened by the racket of machinery, bleached and steamed by meaningless sounds and gestures, spun dry by statistical controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nugatory paradise of weekends, where the crowd communes in weariness and boredom? From adolescence to retirement each 24-hour cycle repeats the same shattering bombardment, like bullets hitting a window: mechanical repetition, time-which-is-money, submission to bosses, boredom, exhaustion. From the butchering of youth’s energy to the gaping wound of old age, life cracks in every direction under the blows of forced labour. Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Already the front against forced labour is being formed; its gestures of refusal are moulding the consciousness of the future. Every call for productivity in the conditions chosen by capitalist and Soviet economy is a call to slavery.
The imperatives of production are the imperatives of survival; from now on, people want to live, not just to survive.
Posted by: Raoul Vaneigem at October 13, 2004 06:57 PM
" eating raoul"
ever see that movie ?
sometimes the worse
it seems
the easier it getz
to fool one's self
Posted by: meat me at October 13, 2004 08:25 PM
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