[MD] head, heart and hands

[MarshaV]

dmb,

My son loves his career.  A few weeks ago he told 
me that he wakes up at 4:00 a.m. with great 
excitement on the days he's to go to his 
workplace.  He's said many times he cannot 
believe he is lucky enough to get paid for what 
he does.  He's a firefighter.   As a mother, I do 
not know what more I could wish for my child.


Marsha








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At 09:52 AM 5/1/2009, you wrote:

>Arlo and y'all:
>I'm thinking that dualistic technology and the 
>meaninglessness of what passes for a 
>"productive" life is actually just a relatively 
>new extension of a very, very old problem. I'll 
>name just three points here. Slavery is as old 
>as civilization itself. For their sins, Adam and 
>Eve were CURSED with a lifetime of toil. 
>According to Plato, craftsman were very low on 
>the scale of goodness and truth. On his scale, 
>only the artists and poets were lower. These are 
>just a few of the reasons that Monday morning 
>rush hour is a great funeral procession. Work or 
>die? Are those really are only choices? Why 
>should it be a form of captivity, a form of 
>punishment, or so far from truth? Jeez, what a 
>nightmare. That's enough to make a slacker out 
>of anyone. That's enough to make a guy suicidal. 
>Or maybe its just me. You know, cause I grew up 
>in Detroit. It all seemed so pointlessly 
>circular to me. Drive to work in your car, where 
>you make cars for the sake of getting money so 
>you can afford a car so you can go to work and 
>make more cars. I tend to agree with Willard, 
>the hero in Apocalypse Now, who said, "You don't 
>get a chance to know what the fuck you are 
>working in some factory in Ohio". For him, that 
>option was so unappealing that he would rather 
>face death in the jungle. Maybe that's a bit too dramatic but I can relate.
>
>Arlo quoted ZAMM:"It is this identity that is 
>the basis of craftsmanship in all the technical 
>arts. And it is this identity that modern, 
>dualistically conceived technology lacks. The 
>creator of it feels no particular sense of 
>identity with it. The owner of it feels no 
>particular sense of identity with it. The user 
>of it feels no particular sense of identity with 
>it. Hence, by Phædrus' definition, it has no 
>Quality." (ZMM) "People arrive at a factory and 
>perform a totally meaningless task from eight to 
>five without question because the structure 
>demands that it be that way. There's no villain, 
>no "mean guy" who wants them to live meaningless 
>lives, it's just that the structure, the system 
>demands it and no one is willing to take on the 
>formidable task of changing the structure just 
>because it is meaningless." (ZMM)
>
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