We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Working for a living in an irrational economic system

Click here to access article by Gary Engler from New Commune-ist Manifesto (Canada).

Under capitalism some peoples' "work" has taken on new meaning besides producing/creating a product or service that is useful to others. This author examines the "work" of such people who function in a capitalist society to provide rich people with more money, and compares them with people whose work provides real benefits to others in society. He concludes his examination with a very useful "cornfield and mazes" metaphor to distinguish the two types of work. 
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