The production of capital is perhaps a necessary condition of work, but a hyper-focus on capital production will miss its sufficient conditions.
Tag: A Corporate Agenda
It may have been the first human, the first common thing she heard in a long while.
A regular experience of moments of success is necessary to understand that we are in a framework for thriving.
The mass-market hegemony resists the moral examination of the world that could stand up to the use of arbitrary power that we have seen with our eyes and have heard with our ears.
. We yearn to “make the most of” our free time, so we are constantly giving our evenings, weekends, and vacations over to our self-advancement. Labor-market precarity and the growth of the gig economy have sharpened these incentives. Pure leisure now feels like pure indulgence - as if we are gluttons.
Technocratic rationality, then, needs to be recognized as a feature of mass society and as a systemic threat to our freedom, and its oligarchic substitution of a human artifice for a real-world with unmarked graves; the original sin of assuming that man is the measure of all things, makes its appearance there. It makes its appearance in the controlling of society to restore the economy - an oligarchic and technocratic rationale so obvious that it is surprising there isn’t more protest.
As much as players get injured in one of the most physically demanding major US sports, what we have here is a canary in a coal mine.
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 