Ideas with Impact

These are interesting and valuable ideas, organizations, research, and books I've come across on the great digital highway.

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Sat Jul 16

The Abolition of Work

Interesting article, has the tenseness of a sociology major with too much caffeine & nicotine, but some points worth considering…. Some highlights:

“No one should ever work….

That doesn’t mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. By “play” I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and maybe even art. There is more to play than child’s play, as worthy as that is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. Play isn’t passive….

Play doesn’t have to be frivolous, although frivolity isn’t triviality: very often we ought to take frivolity seriously. I’d like life to be a game - but a game with high stakes. I want to play for keeps….

Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship….

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps….

The more you give, the more you get….

If we play our cards right, we can all get more out of life than we put into it; but only if we play for keeps.”