A coincidental convergence of recent tweets: we are wasting the surplus from technical and economic innovation on mandatory, soul-killing busywork. 1/https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/981730992330174464 …
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@vgr’s objection here: systematicity should be optional for most people. It’s unnatural and most people are bad at it and don’t like it. We haven’t yet got a good alternative…https://twitter.com/vgr/status/981958713031385088 …Show this thread -
12/ Can a future society provide the emotional rightness of pre-modern community, smoothly-functioning systematic institutions, space for diverse subcultures, and creativity for all? I believe so:https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata …
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I’m not convinced systematicity is essential to flourishing constructions of consciously apprehended reality. I’m toying with idea that it is only necessary in built environment (eg, infrastructure and native morlocks have to embody scientific systematicity, but not “civilians”)
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David Graeber, the anthropologist who has done great analysis on debt, post-structural power analysis, and bureaucracy, is releasing a book on just this phenomenon https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X …
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the essay that spawned it: https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-graeber …
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