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‘Work, More Work, Better Work’
UC is creating work, more work for advisers, but is it better work?
Answers on Twitter to Neil Couling?
“The sick are victims of their own imagination.”
Pol Pot.
Work is not man’s punishment.
It is his reward
and his strength
and his pleasure.
Oh dear. Hadn’t seen that before. That is just so crass. So little understanding…........
“Those who commend work. - In the glorification of ‘work’, in the unwearied talk of the ‘blessing of work’, I see the same covert idea as in the praise of useful impersonal actions: that of fear of everything individual. Fundamentally, one now feels at the sight of work - one always means by work that hard industriousness from early till late - that such work is the best policeman, that it keeps everyone in bounds and can mightily hinder the development of reason, covetousness, desire for independence. For it uses up an extraordinary amount of nervous energy, which is thus denied to reflection, brooding, dreaming, worrying, loving, hating; it sets a small goal always in sight and guarantees easy and regular satisfactions. Thus a society in which there is continual hard work will have more security: and security is now worshipped as the supreme divinity. - And now! Horror! Precisely the ‘worker’ has become dangerous! The place is swarming with ‘dangerous individuals’! And behind them the danger of dangers - the individual!”
The 19th century is so last century. Ahem.
The irony is in the 4th Industrial Revolution and universal income.
Arbeits macht ....
Arbeits macht ....
That’s the one.
It’s the imperative tone, the exclusion of all considerations but work - and the inference that absolutely everyone can work - that worries me.
Not to mention the historical tin ear.