Modern lies my society told me...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:56 pm
Within our ''atomistic'' existence.... lies the problem
of work.....unless one is a ''trust fund baby''
and I knew one who still worked... until he died at 48....
one must work.....I have been working since I was 17.... roughly
48 years..... and there is nothing positive or gratifying about work.....
there is nothing about work that is noble or gives us any purpose in life...
it is sheer drudgery and nothing else...... but Kropotkin, that isn't
true about all people or all work..... if it were so horrible, why
do people still work?
Indeed, that is the question.... much of our modern alienation
derives from work and it traumatic effects it has on people...
the term ''Post-traumatic stress disorder'' or (PTSD) is really
about work and the stress work gives us....
but that leads us to a bigger problem, that of economics....
which is how the state/society organizes itself to feed itself....
clothe itself, house itself.... the basic questions of a human being,
the bodily questions of how does one gain the necessities of existence
which one to live.... economics is the large-scale path of what
individuals do, which is seek out food, water, shelter, health care,
education.....and what of the psychological needs of the one, how
are they meet in a state/ or society? The blunt answer is, they
are kinda met those needs......that of love, of safety/security,
of the need for esteem and of belonging......
the society kinda meets the safety/security and a sense belonging...
for example, the ''ism'' nationalism is about country....
the MAGA/GOP motto is ''god, country and guns''...
in which our need for belonging is met... by our belonging to
country......but as noted elsewhere... there is a strong sense of
alienation from country, as there is a strong sense of alienation
god, and even guns... (and from guns we get the idea that we
can find answers within violence... and not answer can come
from violence)
One of America's means of cohesion lies in the ism of work
and business and the ism of capitalism..... I have laid out the
arguments against capitalism, time and time again... and thus
feel no need to repeat them... outside of saying, that a major
source of America's alienation and discontenment lies in
the devaluation and dehumanization of human beings under
capitalism..... the nihilism that profits are worth more
than human beings... that human beings are a means to
an end and that end is profits..... that our value as human beings,
lies in being participants of capitalism...with no other inherent value,
outside of being a worker, a producer and consumer.... we have no
other value in capitalism.....
that of being dehumanized as human beings is the very heart of the
working experience in capitalism.... that we are replacable, that we
are expendable, that we are considered to be on the same level
as the means of production.... the assembly line is not about the
human beings, but about the machines that move the assembly line....
or to put this another way..... if monkeys ever learn how to count
out change, I am out of a job....as I too work in a factory lite job...
that of a clerk in a supermarket... and if the machine that scans the
items is not working, I am moved elsewhere... in other words,
the scanning devise and cash register have more value than I do,
in my factory lite job... the company spends far more time
and money keeping those two items working, then they do in me....
and the priority in a blackout, of which I have been in several,
the first priority has been to get the machines up and running,
everything else is a distant second......
I am replaceble, the machines are not....
and we return to our original question...
what is the value of work?
If we are expendable and replacable, then what
value does work have for us? How do I find meaning in
work if I have virtually no value at work....
In my particular company, the goal is to have workers work
for only three years... any longer and they begin to cost more money
and that is unacceptable.... they get automatic raises because of
the contract we sign with the company... I have worked for
this company 18 years, my hourly wage when I started was $9.00 something
an hour...today, it's close to $27 per hour....
and how can the company makes its profits with employees like
me who are making $27 an hour....and yet, my corporation made
over 20 billion dollars last year..... despite my wages....
and for the corporation, I have no more value than a door in
the corporate lobby... and how do I find meaning in that?
and one answer that will arise is, Kropotkin, you find your
meaning where you can? its not a state or society purpose
to give you meaning.... if that were true, then why push
capitalism as an ism? If there is no inherent meaning in
capitalism, then why push it as the sole economic system
of our times?
and if the workers are not benefitting from capitalism, as I
have suggested, on several levels, then who does actually
benefit from capitalism?
those who own the ''means of production"" the owners of and
the stockholders of any given corporation.... they benefit....
and thus the lie of the meaning of work stems from their
gains from capitalism..... it is their lie to keep the workers,
working....
Now one might say, so what is the alternative Kropotkin?
but as usual, the first step is, as it always is, to
first discover if there is a problem..... and for most people,
they have been indoctrinated enough into believing the lies
of capitalism and of work..... as I always say, it is for us
to engage in a reevaluation of values.... to see if our values,
the ones we hold dear, our actually our values or, as I have
often suggested, values that were indoctrinated into us...
and we have blindly accepted..... without any examination
of the implications of those values....
We have been alienated, dehumanized, devalued from our work,
our economics, our ism's and our state/society......
and we can only escape this if we could only see and recognize that
fact..... and that is the battle today.... to see our economics and
work as the enemy, not as our friends.....
Kropotkin
of work.....unless one is a ''trust fund baby''
and I knew one who still worked... until he died at 48....
one must work.....I have been working since I was 17.... roughly
48 years..... and there is nothing positive or gratifying about work.....
there is nothing about work that is noble or gives us any purpose in life...
it is sheer drudgery and nothing else...... but Kropotkin, that isn't
true about all people or all work..... if it were so horrible, why
do people still work?
Indeed, that is the question.... much of our modern alienation
derives from work and it traumatic effects it has on people...
the term ''Post-traumatic stress disorder'' or (PTSD) is really
about work and the stress work gives us....
but that leads us to a bigger problem, that of economics....
which is how the state/society organizes itself to feed itself....
clothe itself, house itself.... the basic questions of a human being,
the bodily questions of how does one gain the necessities of existence
which one to live.... economics is the large-scale path of what
individuals do, which is seek out food, water, shelter, health care,
education.....and what of the psychological needs of the one, how
are they meet in a state/ or society? The blunt answer is, they
are kinda met those needs......that of love, of safety/security,
of the need for esteem and of belonging......
the society kinda meets the safety/security and a sense belonging...
for example, the ''ism'' nationalism is about country....
the MAGA/GOP motto is ''god, country and guns''...
in which our need for belonging is met... by our belonging to
country......but as noted elsewhere... there is a strong sense of
alienation from country, as there is a strong sense of alienation
god, and even guns... (and from guns we get the idea that we
can find answers within violence... and not answer can come
from violence)
One of America's means of cohesion lies in the ism of work
and business and the ism of capitalism..... I have laid out the
arguments against capitalism, time and time again... and thus
feel no need to repeat them... outside of saying, that a major
source of America's alienation and discontenment lies in
the devaluation and dehumanization of human beings under
capitalism..... the nihilism that profits are worth more
than human beings... that human beings are a means to
an end and that end is profits..... that our value as human beings,
lies in being participants of capitalism...with no other inherent value,
outside of being a worker, a producer and consumer.... we have no
other value in capitalism.....
that of being dehumanized as human beings is the very heart of the
working experience in capitalism.... that we are replacable, that we
are expendable, that we are considered to be on the same level
as the means of production.... the assembly line is not about the
human beings, but about the machines that move the assembly line....
or to put this another way..... if monkeys ever learn how to count
out change, I am out of a job....as I too work in a factory lite job...
that of a clerk in a supermarket... and if the machine that scans the
items is not working, I am moved elsewhere... in other words,
the scanning devise and cash register have more value than I do,
in my factory lite job... the company spends far more time
and money keeping those two items working, then they do in me....
and the priority in a blackout, of which I have been in several,
the first priority has been to get the machines up and running,
everything else is a distant second......
I am replaceble, the machines are not....
and we return to our original question...
what is the value of work?
If we are expendable and replacable, then what
value does work have for us? How do I find meaning in
work if I have virtually no value at work....
In my particular company, the goal is to have workers work
for only three years... any longer and they begin to cost more money
and that is unacceptable.... they get automatic raises because of
the contract we sign with the company... I have worked for
this company 18 years, my hourly wage when I started was $9.00 something
an hour...today, it's close to $27 per hour....
and how can the company makes its profits with employees like
me who are making $27 an hour....and yet, my corporation made
over 20 billion dollars last year..... despite my wages....
and for the corporation, I have no more value than a door in
the corporate lobby... and how do I find meaning in that?
and one answer that will arise is, Kropotkin, you find your
meaning where you can? its not a state or society purpose
to give you meaning.... if that were true, then why push
capitalism as an ism? If there is no inherent meaning in
capitalism, then why push it as the sole economic system
of our times?
and if the workers are not benefitting from capitalism, as I
have suggested, on several levels, then who does actually
benefit from capitalism?
those who own the ''means of production"" the owners of and
the stockholders of any given corporation.... they benefit....
and thus the lie of the meaning of work stems from their
gains from capitalism..... it is their lie to keep the workers,
working....
Now one might say, so what is the alternative Kropotkin?
but as usual, the first step is, as it always is, to
first discover if there is a problem..... and for most people,
they have been indoctrinated enough into believing the lies
of capitalism and of work..... as I always say, it is for us
to engage in a reevaluation of values.... to see if our values,
the ones we hold dear, our actually our values or, as I have
often suggested, values that were indoctrinated into us...
and we have blindly accepted..... without any examination
of the implications of those values....
We have been alienated, dehumanized, devalued from our work,
our economics, our ism's and our state/society......
and we can only escape this if we could only see and recognize that
fact..... and that is the battle today.... to see our economics and
work as the enemy, not as our friends.....
Kropotkin