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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 12:57:51 -0400
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From:         Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@MAYA.ISIS.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Fuller's History of Industrialization

In <92Sep13.211129edt.9839@mail.uunet.ca> van@teal.csn.org writes:
>
> Since I am now "the boss", I have learned to my great regret that there are
> few around with the work ethic my partner and I seem to have accidentally
> developed.  It seems that in most strata, people are interested in mainly
> what kind of benefits they can "get" rather than what kind of benefits they
> can "earn".

I challenge your ideal and with it bring the missing element that
explains why you are unable to propagate your obsolete (in Fuller's
view) goal:

 "A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and out life
depends on the labours of others, living and dead, and that I must
exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am
still receiving" -- Albert Einstein

A far better "work ethic" is Camus' "True generosity toward the
future" accomplished by giving your all for the present.  The Japanese
have a time-proven technique for generating this more positive
sentiment, the techniques of Naikan (for more information see any of
the books by David K Reynolds).  In Fuller's view, there is no need to
'earn a living', citing the "lilies of the field" as his starting
point, his own life as proof.  If you are being useful to the maximum
number of humanity, you will be retained as an integral part of
Reality.  It is because you are boss and your employees and clients
need you that makes you successful; effort alone just won't do it, and
it is that failure of your teaching that makes some of your students
give up in frustration.

> The part of Critical Path that bugs me is that when I see people willing to
> let others support them without *any* desire to participate in activities
> beneficial to society -- in fact some are even willing to *hurt* society and
> still feel they have earned a welcome place in it -- I get upset.

You don't talk to these people much, do you.  In Fuller's view, once
they no longer think they _must_ "earn a living", ghetto kids, being
as rich (ie fabulously) as any other kid on the planet, will cease to
feel they are disadvantaged.  Why do we have repressive regimes?
Greed.  Why do we have have-nots? Greed.  In Fuller's plan, greed
becomes rediculous and obsolete.  Like Pierre Elliot Trudeau's thesis,
the most important job will be Consumer.  It is the flow of goods and
the exchange of capital that makes it all work now, and some bright
young exec with his Lotus 1-2-3 is bound to discover what Universe has
known all along.

> I have known mothers on welfare who starve their kids, use the ADC money up
> on clothes and booze to attract more men.  I have seen fathers rescue these
> kids from the situation - providing food, clothing, love and then well meaning
> social workers find the child and put them back in the mother's care.  I have
> seen
> at least 3 situations like this out of 10 or 12 welefare situations I know
> about.

Welfare would also be obsolete, and all the kids material needs met.
In giving our all to them, they become consumers, and that has the
industrial equation providing for more, which makes it more efficient,
which makes it richer ... it is a feedback loop the WorldGame
Institute already has evidence to prove.  Brace yourself! It is
inevitable.

> I just feel that the world needs to have some kind of a reward and punishment
> system so that behaviors that benefit society will be encouraged.

Just so long as you agree with which behaviours have official
sanction?  Please keep your witch-hunting off this list.  We here are
interested in a better world, not more of the same.

--
Gary Lawrence Murphy -- garym@maya.isis.org -- (613) 230-6255
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