Jealousy: Causes and a Possible Cure. This article appears courtesy of Emma Goldman Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations No one at all capable of an intense conscious inner life need ever hope to escape mental anguish and suffering.
Sorrow and often despair over the so-called eternal fitness of things are the most persistent companions of our life. But they do not come upon us from the outside, through the evil deeds of particularly evil people. They are conditioned in our very being; indeed, they are interwoven through a thousand tender and coarse threads with our existence. It is absolutely necessary that we realize this fact, because people who never get away from the notion that their misfortune is due to the wickedness of their fellows never can outgrow the petty hatred and malice which constantly blames, condemns, and hounds others for something that is inevitable as part of themselves.
Unfortunately this is not the case. The Limits of Incompetence. Our social instincts compel us to think well of our fellow man.
In spite of much evidence to the contrary, we think him competent to cast votes, to decide how to spend and borrow money, and how to bring up his own children. We persist in this conviction even as the manifest lack of competence at every level of American society causes it to careen toward ruin. We recoil at the thought of government bureaucrats separating the competent from the incompetent, making those who are incompetent, along with their children, wards of the state, remedying their incompetence through strict discipline when possible, and consigning the rest to a lifetime of manual labor in service of society. Many of us quite justifiably think that the government bureaucrats are themselves incompetent, or worse.
Those who no longer trust the competence of either the government or our fellow man instead put their faith in corporations or in churches or even in bloggers and internet newsgroups (pathetic, I know). Manifesto against Labour - Gruppe Krisis. Gruppe Krisis Manifesto Against Labour 1.
The rule of dead labour A corpse rules society - the corpse of labour. All powers around the globe formed an alliance to defend its rule: the Pope and the World Bank, Tony Blair and Jörg Haider, trade unions and entrepreneurs, German ecologists and French socialists. Whoever still has not forgotten what reflection is all about, will easily realise the implausibility of such an attitude. Those who do not work (labour) shall not eat!
The more it becomes obvious that the labour society is nearing its end, the more forcefully this realisation is being repressed in public awareness. To some people unemployment is the result of exaggerated demands, low-performance or missing flexibility, to others unemployment is due to the incompetence, corruption, or greed of "their" politicians or business executives, let alone the inclination of such "leaders" to pursue policies of "treachery". 2. 3. In the old days people worked to earn money. 4. EXIT! - CRISE E CRÍTICA DA SOCIEDADE DA MERCADORIA (em português) Buy Nothing Day: waving the flag for the commodity-form, or, ‘Why even good goods are bad goods’ Every supermarket or shopping mall will easily attest to Marx’s notion that “the wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities,’ ” (Marx, Capital I, Ch. 1).
However, the sheer oodles of commodities available for purchase would probably have left him flabbergasted. As far as Marx was concerned the shelves in his book are stacked with corn, linen, iron and coats, not with Smartphones, DVD box sets, foot spas, ‘super fruit’ and all the other things on display and discount in all the lovely stores. Fortunately, the insanity of goods and services we are thought to consume day in day out, have not gone unnoticed and 17 years ago in 1992, the American activist group ‘Adbusters’ invented ‘Buy Nothing Day’, a very own holiday in their honour.
Wait a minute, “in their honour”?! This brings us straight to the main problem, almost nothing in our world, is produced based on some assumption of need. By Auntie.