Advancing #technology was sold to us under the idea that it would lift everyone out of #drudgery, but as we can all plainly see, it was only ever intended to elevate a select #elite and reduce the rest of us to drudges to serve the #ruling and #affluent #monopoly #ownership classes, their mandarins, and their machines.
America is now a #ThirdWorld #colonial extraction #economy. The sun will always set on any #empire, given enough time and enough #weapons in the hands of the colonized.
A quotation from Barrie, James:
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5607/
> The nearly intolerable irony in our dissatisfaction is that we have removed pleasure from our work in order to remove “drudgery” from our lives. If I could pick any rule of industrial economics to receive a thorough re-examination by our people, it would be the one that says that all hard physical work is “drudgery” and not worth doing.
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/feature/excerpts-the-writings-wendell-berry
#WendellBerry #Work #Drudgery #Farming #Farmers
A quotation from Gladwell, Malcolm:
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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/gladwell-malcolm/60418/
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