Anti Wage-Slavery, Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 918-920

Q: We seem to have accepted an increasingly dysfunctional norm as normal. Why has this happened?

The major cause, separation of mothers and infants at birth, has grown throughout our century. At the same time achieving a high standard of living became the focal point of all schooling and training, creating a new mind-set and set of values. Standard of living has nothing to do with the development of intelligence, including ironically, the ability to be socialized and schooled. Quality of life determines the growth of intelligence, and as standard of living increased, the quality of life for children decreased. Quality of life to an infant-child means only one thing: complete unconditional acceptance and emotional nurturing on the part of a permanent caretaker. We have the most emotionally deprived children on earth, separated from parent at birth, and continually separated as they grow. Convinced that we are giving them what is most important, a high standard of living, we overload them with material goods to compensate for the love and attention denied. We earn money to buy these goods by working to make them, leaving little time for the child already isolated. So our heaping goods on the child to compensate for the love and nurturing they don't get, itself keeps the wheels of industry turning. And around it goes. Each child grows up to intensify the cycle in their interaction with their own offspring. It's an insane spiral toward chaos, sponsored and encouraged by a society based on economic games in which a few winners are bought at the price of masses of losers.
Touch the Future
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Amazing Capacities & Self Inflicted Limitations
In conversation with Michael Mendizza
(emphasis JS)

if I were to argue that a small fraction of the U.S. military budget could provide basic life resources for all under-employed Americans (or even all under-employed humans worldwide), the conversation in any meaningful form would end, thanks to the programmed routing of ideas.
Future of Work: Finding Value in the Rejects of the Job Economy
By: Nick Meador
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Published: October 10, 2012

 

 It’s time to question everything we in Western civilization have, for decades (at least), taken for granted to be the only possible survival paradigm: boring, unfulfilling work. This will largely involve unleashing the infinite creative and imaginative power of the human race – not by finding ways to “drop out” of the system, but by including a wider variety of human minds in the collective process.

Future of Work: Finding Value in the Rejects of the Job Economy
By: Nick Meador
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Published: October 10, 2012
(emphasis JS)