Work, leisure and idleness
We must rethink our love of work and replace it with a love of leisure. In our current world work, leisure and idleness are generally equated with; work is productive, decent, and good; idleness is lazy, stupefying, wasteful and bad, and leisure is a small break from work to refresh oneself, is fun, is a [...]
“What is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: [...]
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Give them autonomy, connection and confidence and they will build. Put a hammer in their hand and demand they hit the head, a bent nail will bite the wood. Final result based business organisation is a far more productive method of money making than narrow quantitative production control. (two ways of saying the same thing) [...]
Continue reading …The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?
January 22, 2012 1 Comment
A couple of things have encouraged me to write about the growth of Chinese power. It is Chinese New-year on Monday, the year of the water dragon, which signifies strength and power, and for many Chinese this means 2012 is a great year to show Chinese strength. A news report in the Age stating the [...]
Continue reading …Not long ago leisure was held in greater esteem than work. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, De Tocqueville and more recently Barry Jones all saw work as a necessary toil but something to be avoided, it was leisure not work that lead to great insights, true understanding and wisdom. From the quiet contemplation of one’s surrounding, the [...]
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You would have to be blind Freddie to think all is well in the world. We have the European Union on the brink of collapse, the USA about to go into a double dip recession, revolutions sweeping through the Arab world, Pakistan a nuclear power close to becoming a failed state, global recession likely and [...]
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Recently I have been reading Barry Jones’ Sleepers Wake – Technology and the future of work, written in 1982 it foresees a post service work environment, technology will have saved us from much toil and we will need a guaranteed income for all (similar to my Flat Payment) to provide for all those who are [...]
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Jos is one of the many Aussies trying his luck in london. This is just a little of his story… Wow, so much time has passed and so many things have happened since my last entry I don’t quiet know where to begin. I re-read my previous entry and realised that I have a lot [...]
Continue reading …Technology was to save us from the drudgery of labour instead Australia has more people in the workforce and we are working longer hours than 25 years ago(1). We have trapped ourselves in a work for income, income to consume, consume to create work cycle which is not just leading to empty lives but is [...]
Continue reading …I wrote this article about 4 years ago and published it on jesaurai, since then the field of epignetics has expanded and research has found a epigenetic link to neurogenesis. Recent discoveries in the fields of genetics and neuroscience have opened the door to the idea that the way we live may effect our biology, [...]
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