Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Oct 18, 2014 20:58:30 GMT 5.5
There is nothing profound in saying that working is being productive not only to society but also to your family and yourself--you give something to your society, bring something home to your family, and you remain afloat and more valuable than somebody who does not work or has stopped working. This nothing-profound statement takes on another hue if you understand the situation as being at the hub of an ultra-capitalist establishment. In ultra-capitalism (communism is not its antidote) a working person is owned by a rich person owning a company functioning in an impersonal way providing "not-for-free" products required to maintain at least the minimum decency level of a society. (This company owner, if he follows the law, pays the right amount of tax for his income, as any other person, including his employees, whose income at least reaches the minimum taxable threshold, does.) When most employees in an organization work beyond office hours either to earn more or to please their master, and if these people stop thinking about most other things in life, such as art, love, self/soul, inner peace, etc., the few employees left who work to fuel/fund what they consider more important than earning come to be at stake. When the rest of the employees work like crazy, these few people begin to be pulled into the whirlpool of craziness--when all the other wheels turn at a crazy speed, there cannot be one or two normal wheels remaining at a sane speed. You simply become an odd man out.
When I've had the little income required to maintain a home and take care of it for a few years into the future, I need some time everyday for myself and my home/family. In any case, my family will have me, little as the time may be. However, being a socially productive man, I have been putting myself in condition in which I have been destroying myself spiritually and psychologically because I've stopped doing things that pleases me spiritually and psychologically. If I am good now, I was a far better man five years ago. I had time for what I value most in life (definitely more valuable than money and recognition), and thus, contented and pleased with myself spiritually and psychologically, I was spiritually and psychologically a more useful, productive person to people in my circle. In an ultra-capitalist setting, if the real me is sill alive inside me, I am not the same person any more now.
I am more than alive and kicking to the eyes to whom motion/movement means life. However, unavailable to myself, my own soul when I need myself most, I am dead internally. I should come out of this death. I should live again.
When I've had the little income required to maintain a home and take care of it for a few years into the future, I need some time everyday for myself and my home/family. In any case, my family will have me, little as the time may be. However, being a socially productive man, I have been putting myself in condition in which I have been destroying myself spiritually and psychologically because I've stopped doing things that pleases me spiritually and psychologically. If I am good now, I was a far better man five years ago. I had time for what I value most in life (definitely more valuable than money and recognition), and thus, contented and pleased with myself spiritually and psychologically, I was spiritually and psychologically a more useful, productive person to people in my circle. In an ultra-capitalist setting, if the real me is sill alive inside me, I am not the same person any more now.
I am more than alive and kicking to the eyes to whom motion/movement means life. However, unavailable to myself, my own soul when I need myself most, I am dead internally. I should come out of this death. I should live again.