[Springboard] On the contradictions

[David Scott]

John,
david scott here --

It was good to hear your voice, for a few seconds, this week-end.  I hope
things go well for you and Ann.

Your comments regarding the "life and work" contradictions certainly strikes
a chord with me (and I believe my students, also).  You might want to go
back to Marx's dealing with "alienation from work>"  For Marx this was a
particularly important fact of the industrial age (modern age).  If you
don't have your Marx handy, I'll be happy to send you a bit from the text
book I use.

I hope some day you and I get to be together for a while.  Any chance you
getting to Montana?  Give my best to Ann.

david

By the way -- this is under "very small world" -- the last time I was in SC
to visit my sister, I met a retired forest service guy who was a UofG grad.
We began to talk and guess what?  he was at Benning the same summer you and
I were there.  It truly is a small world.

On Dec 4, 2007 10:08 AM, jlepps at pc.jaring.my <jlepps at pc.jaring.my> wrote:

>  Thanks for the posting of contradictions. They're quite good.
>
> There's another one that has bothered me quite a bit that may fit under
> one of the headings, but it's this: *the illegitimate distinction between
> life and work.* The mantra in SE Asia these days is "Achieve a balance
> between life and work." The implication is that work is somehow not life to
> the people making the statement, and that's probably true. People generally
> do not find meaning in work, and that's a terrible loss / waste of talent /
> offense to customers / misuse of time. In fact, people don't generally quit
> living when they go to work, though some appear to. It's not simply a matter
> of story either. It represents a serious misunderstanding of the private
> sector, one that assumes business is only about profit. In fact, profit is
> only the measure of how good a company is at what it does. But doing what it
> does (its mission) can be immensely important to society, and to engage in
> that can be a privilege -- something we discovered when under assignment.
>
> Anyway this may be something else to consider.
>
> John E.
>
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