If you learn one thing as you go through this short time we call life, it is that people do not think. Situations, conversations, ideas go into our heads and some piece of the mind connects with another piece and instead of thinking about the topic it pulls the answer out immediately. If we wait we come back with the same answer, only now we think we thought about it. Have you ever wondered why you dream such nonsense or why certain things will create some feeling of dread or happiness or whatever? It is because much of what we are is simply our mind's evolutionary process at work. But maybe, sometimes, we can take those synapses and move them around so that next time something different comes out. Possible?
Anyway that is my intro to an interesting interview in the 'Boston Review.' Quote below for my wingnut friends who often tell me how much they appreciate my quotes and book links.
"Most interactions with people that you trust, people that you love, or people that just need to cooperate with on an immediate basis, take the form of From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. It doesnt matter if youre working for the government, working for a corporation, or working in your family; if you need to fix the toilet because its leaking and you say Hand me the wrench, the other guy doesnt say What do I get for that? Its not an exchange; people act according to their abilities to chip in. Ironically communism is applied because its the only thing that works; its the most efficient way to allocate resources. Thus I like to say that you could argue that capitalism is just a bad way of organizing communism." David Graeber
Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)
Anyway that is my intro to an interesting interview in the 'Boston Review.' Quote below for my wingnut friends who often tell me how much they appreciate my quotes and book links.
"Most interactions with people that you trust, people that you love, or people that just need to cooperate with on an immediate basis, take the form of From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs. It doesnt matter if youre working for the government, working for a corporation, or working in your family; if you need to fix the toilet because its leaking and you say Hand me the wrench, the other guy doesnt say What do I get for that? Its not an exchange; people act according to their abilities to chip in. Ironically communism is applied because its the only thing that works; its the most efficient way to allocate resources. Thus I like to say that you could argue that capitalism is just a bad way of organizing communism." David Graeber
Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)