Who's going to teach those schools? And build them? And build the desks? Someone has to be employed that that 'drudgery.'
Seriously, why not encourage people to take some fucking pride in their work whatever it is? Why not instill an idea that ALL work is important, and doing one's work well, regardless of the 'drudgery' of it, because being a useful citizen & productive member of society is more fulfilling than letting someone else do all the work?
let me back up and offer a disclaimer here - I happen to LOVE Bucky Fuller - I love his designs, his humanist/futurist philosophy, his way of seeing through problems rather than solving them
having said that - it's one thing to spout flowery rhetoric about how the world *should* be run, and another thing completely to figure out how to engineer stuff that works - I salute the places where BF did both, and kind of roll my eyes at the places where he just did the first one ;)
@SuzyBrown. Can I suggest you go back and read it again. Because he doesn't say don't work, he says we should spend more time thinking up ways for us all to do less work than finding ways to do more. Doing pointless mcjobs to pay the rent does not make you a useful citizen, it barely even counts as living.
@deletism You can suggest anything you like, what do I care?
And doing pointless jobs to survive does indeed make you a useful citizen. Who is going to make the burgers? Work is part of living & having a good attitude toward work is what makes you a good citizen. Crapping on people who take satisfaction from work is what tears nations apart.
I don't care if you're mopping the floor, you mop it as well as you can & you get it shining so everyone who walks on it feels like they live in a clean, tidy world. Then you stand back & take pride in your work. That's what being a productive human is about.
@deletism And then AFTER you worked to pay your rent & buy your food, you can go home & study, play your guitar, do philosophy, take elegant photos, or whatever else floats your boat. Then you're not only working & productive, you are fulfilled. You give more to society than you take.
@SuzyBrown You're taking it out of context and applying it to basic utilizations of society. There is nothing redundant about direct food service, nor is there anything redundant about public sanitation. There's also nothing wrong with taking pride in doing your work, whatever it may be. Taking a step back and making the world more self-sufficient while improving the conditions of yours and an infinite multitude of others' life with a little bit of provocative thought work instead of trudging through life in order to get to your fulfillment because of unrealistic restraints that present your work to you as the end-all-be-all way to do this job, just do it? That helps us all, and is a little less self-centric and has a fantastic societal orientation. You can isolate yourself and do you job, being happy that you're out of the way and doing something that only temporarily solves a self-replicating problem, or you can make your or anyone else's job redundant so that everyone gets to be a more whole part of their bigger idealisation together.
@SuzyBrown. I'm glad you brought being a human into it (rather than being a citizen). Because doing work just for the sake of it has nothing whatsoever to do with humanity. Taking pride in doing some utterly pointless paid task is complete self delusion, the equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.
Buckminster Fuller is decrying the lost opportunities to reduce the amount of labour we ALL have to do, not asking for "creative" types to put their feet up while everyone else does the hard work. TBH the 8 hours spent earning my weekly pay is the LEAST productive part of my day. I am utterly absent, alienated and uninterested. If as a society we didn't fetishize work for the sake of it - if we concentrated on making less work and more free time - we could be equally as productive and have more time to enjoy time. Then we might realise that the world we currently inhabit is a poor substitute for life.
Seriously, why not encourage people to take some fucking pride in their work whatever it is? Why not instill an idea that ALL work is important, and doing one's work well, regardless of the 'drudgery' of it, because being a useful citizen & productive member of society is more fulfilling than letting someone else do all the work?
having said that - it's one thing to spout flowery rhetoric about how the world *should* be run, and another thing completely to figure out how to engineer stuff that works - I salute the places where BF did both, and kind of roll my eyes at the places where he just did the first one ;)
And doing pointless jobs to survive does indeed make you a useful citizen. Who is going to make the burgers? Work is part of living & having a good attitude toward work is what makes you a good citizen. Crapping on people who take satisfaction from work is what tears nations apart.
I don't care if you're mopping the floor, you mop it as well as you can & you get it shining so everyone who walks on it feels like they live in a clean, tidy world. Then you stand back & take pride in your work. That's what being a productive human is about.
Buckminster Fuller is decrying the lost opportunities to reduce the amount of labour we ALL have to do, not asking for "creative" types to put their feet up while everyone else does the hard work. TBH the 8 hours spent earning my weekly pay is the LEAST productive part of my day. I am utterly absent, alienated and uninterested. If as a society we didn't fetishize work for the sake of it - if we concentrated on making less work and more free time - we could be equally as productive and have more time to enjoy time. Then we might realise that the world we currently inhabit is a poor substitute for life.