[Peace-discuss] Rohn Koester's suggestion

["E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"]

As a dedicated workaholic I find this partitioning of one's work and 
one's life
as being incredibly difficult to understand.  I seldom stop thinking 
about my
work, even when I am not thinking about my work.

What is it that makes people hate their jobs?

Is there some fundamental mismatch between what people do and what
comes natural to them?  I find it very natural to immerse myself in my work.

*

I was thinking about this 
MisMatch/MisAlignment/Incompatibility/Maladaptation syndrome
thing in regard to the huge number of people who end up in Amerika's 
Cull Pens, the prisons.

Some get captured there as pawns because prisons are good business.

But really the majority are there because they are MisFits.  I recognize 
that not
all MisFits end up in the Iron Hotel...

But there is something Fundamentally Wrong with a society that hates its 
work and
wants to spend less time working and more time not working, and 
something fundamentally
wrong with a society that generates so many culls.


On 11/02/12 8:36, Susan Parenti wrote:
>
>> Susan, thank you so much for your messages about this -- I can't
>> attend the meeting tonight, but I have an idea I would like to pass
>> along.
>>
>> I try to imagine the different world we would all be living in if the
>> prediction made in 1965 by a U.S. Senate subcommittee had come true:
>> that by the year 2000, the standard U.S. work week would be reduced to
>> 20 hours, due to efficiencies created through computerization and
>> automation. Certainly we've realized these efficiencies, but workers
>> in the U.S. are working longer hours than ever -- certainly longer
>> than any other post-industrial nation in the world.
>>
>> Why is this? Okay, so a culture of market-driven material competition
>> would be expected to generate obsessive, irrational behaviors about
>> work, and just as clearly, overscheduling the employed class preempts
>> political activism. No doubt, many more reasons could be added to this
>> list. // Following the script of standard employment models, where
>> routines and relationships are ready-made, requires less
>> responsibility and courage than making free choices and dealing with
>> the consequences. Are we promoting the harder-but-richer path of
>> greater discretionary time, or are we using one economic crisis after
>> another to ensure that the same tired routines are reproduced?
>>
>> A shorter work week would be an excellent Occupy-oriented argument and
>> would work alongside arguments against underemployment and
>> unemployment, and in favor of a living wage -- behind all these
>> arguments is the need for a fairer parsing of compensation for labor
>> and the time we dedicate to receive it. As a protest movement, a
>> reduced work week certainly has a policy dimension, with many
>> statistical analyses and anecdotes to support legislative reform. As a
>> political movement, though, it can also be practiced by anyone with a
>> full-time job, in which individuals make a commitment to take back 10
>> or 20 hours per week, either overtly (by promoting goal-driven
>> schedules over absolute schedules, say) or covertly (by being champion
>> slackers). I like both approaches.
>>
>> Sorry again for not being at the meeting tonight -- I hope these ideas
>> feel worthwhile and welcome at the meeting.
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Rohn
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