"The Solution To Just About Everything: Working Less"
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The Solution To Just About Everything: Work Less.... And Read More George Carlin (A Letter To Friend Mary)
Alan: I will begin with an observation I made 25 years ago while teaching public high school: When it comes to one's chosen occupation, the most important thing is to define -- and undertake -- one's own work in the world.
We pay far too much attention to working on the agendas of people we barely know - may not know at all - and quite likely wouldn't want to know.
Insofar as many of these people embody capitalist piggery at its worst, just what does our all-consuming service to them mean?
Maybe it doesn't mean much.
Maybe it means a lot.
In my own life, I've concluded it doesn't mean much, and may even contribute to the wellspring of meaninglessness in the modern world, or to the destruction of meaning.
In any event, I'm pretty sure -- in my own noggin -- that the solution to just about everything is working less, at least insofar as "work" refers to self-"enslaving" toil.
I first saw the distinction between "good work" and "soul-sapping toil" (which, etymologically is derived from the word "travail") while teaching at Orange High School and C.W. Stanford Middle School in the early 1990s - and I realized that curricula were (often, if not regularly) skewed in the direction of "occupational subservience" to people I would not want as friends.
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Unbridled Cowboy Capitalism has become an impregnable fortress for scoundreals... and worse.
In its current manifestation, unregulated "Cowboy Capitalism" protects and advances
the self-seeking greed of "profiteering opportunists," all of them cut from the same cloth as Malignant Messiah.
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Facebook Thread About Big Pharma Malfeasance, And The First Ever Woman Editor Of "The New England Journal Of Medicine," Maria Angell's Spot-On Criticism Of The Pharmaceutical Industry
Angell MD points a finger at the very heart of American capitalism as it now operates. Unbridled Capitalism has become an impregnable fortress for scoundrels... and worse.
In its current manifestation, unregulated "Cowboy Capitalism" protects and advances the self-seeking -- democracy-destroying, biosphere-toxic -- greed of "profiteering opportunists," all of them cut from the same cloth as Malignant Messiah.
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