>And I would guess that in xxx years from now people will look back on the
>commuters, subway riders and busy busy people and say what? You mean people
>went into a Kafka/Mondrian environment and parroted the party line just to
>get paid. No wonder there is so little incentive to break the work/income
>nexus.
>
>arthur > ----------
Was it not always thus? People do not recognize that they are living in a
Kafka/Mondrian environment nor are they likely to in future. Occasionally
they catch glimpses of it, but they quickly look away and focus on the
steady and comfortable. Kafka is something they had to read at university,
if they got that far and took arts, and Mondrian is something they see at
the gallery, if they ever go there. Besides, given the horrors the world
has lived through since the one wrote and the other painted, they are both
really very tame -- hardly contradictions at all.
And why should people want to see the work/income nexus broken? For most
people, both are tolerable if not comfortable, and the nexus is deeply
imbedded in our traditions. As workfare, it has now become deeply imbedded
in our politics. The day of letting those snotty little welfare cheats take
our hard earned tax dollars without pretending to work is over.
Ed Weick
