The Nascence to End Work ..."The NEW":
“Nascence” means “birth.” To birth a movement to end work is the work of The NEW.
Brothers and sisters...can we please stop saying, "we need jobs"...? Every time we do we're aligning our interests (unconsciously) with the pitiful-power-drunk-few. We don't need 'jobs'...we need full, vibrant, interesting, fun and reverent lives free of the yoke.
It's time to houseclean our heads, sweep out the conditioning, change the messages, make our own 'stories,' re-name our 'selves.' I've looked "human being" up in the dictionary and there's nothing there about being a slave.
Each person I see is damaged by a system that tells him he's a worker-bee. Imagine what we'll be when we're finally free of that conditioning! [From: "The Ruses Used To Rend Us"]
[I hope Avatar will be pondered – all its layered thought – and deeply felt / taken to heart ...after which...may the grieving grow beyond the phony walls separating us from ourselves and our earth – and build the unequivocal demand for our future freedom without bosses.
–"...for some of us, beginning to claim our wholeness will be about returning, writing and grieving: returning to home base, noticing what you didn't get, and grieving." [From Waking Up, The Plan, Pt. 2]
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds;...There is a terrible coercion in our deeds which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change; for this reason – that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable right. The action which before commission has been seen with that blended common-sense and fresh untarnished feeling which is the healthy eye of the soul, is looked at afterwards with the lens of apologetic ingenuity, through which all things that men call beautiful and ugly are seen to be made up of textures very much alike. Europe adjusts itself to a fait accompli, and so does an individual character – until the placid adjustment is disturbed by a convulsive retribution. (George Eliot, Adam Bede)
"There is a terrible coercion to our deeds..." – and though we may be as unwilling to own them – as Arthur in Adam Bede was unwilling to own his heinous acts – when we sell our agency...our energy...our vitality and powers of analysis to the highest bidder...that deed shapes us nonetheless...makes us what we are...
– so how can we begin to make ourselves rather than cooperating with the plans of others to make us?
[Continued at: "Becoming The Function"]
No one else can tell you what work you're here to do.
Across all false divisions that states inculcate, people are people everywhere.
"Human intelligence is like water, air and fire – it cannot be bought or sold."
The work that must be done requires all of us or none.
We need strategies; we need a plan.
We need approaches; we need a path.
We need steps we can follow,
And a view of the end;
We need patience to get there,
And a place to begin –
Refuse Division Work;
All of us, or none;
No tests;
No diplomas;
No degrees.
They aren’t needed
to be free.
All together now!
One, Two, Three, Four,
We don’t buy from you no more!
Buy from the people,
Buy from the source
Buy from each other
And bury the corpse!
Done with the fearing youth.
Done. Done. Done.
Love them
and they’ll love you back.
Feed them
and they’ll grow.
Done with the hurting youth.
Done. Done. Done.
Hitting is so passé,
so completely
yesterday.
We’re too brilliant
for such crude techniques,
Too buoyant
to be so cold.
Live simply,
Help each other,
Don’t buy anything
but the least you have to.
And whatever we use
We get from friends.
We’ll be forming the crew
that builds the NEW.
No more settling
for less than what we want.
Little by little
we whittle and whittle
away the death-worship,
the denial of meaning,
returning to reverence,
to spiral renewal,
to springs out of winters,
and to all things communal.
© Nas2EndWork (the NEW)
We’ve been conditioned to struggle with our frustrations – the challenge of trying to be a full human being, full of life, health, and joy – alone. Now is the time to talk with each other about these difficulties. Simply meeting together and acknowledging that the current social arrangement cannot meet our need to be whole is a huge step forward, but we cannot stop there.
We’ve been systematically stripped of our inheritance as free beings. Now is the time to reclaim that freedom.
This site inaugurates the movement to end wage work. Over the course of millennia the creativity, blood, sweat, tears, and love of working people have fueled a massive and bloody exploitation of the planet…but it’s time to rest. Through arguments, ideas, and actions explored and discussed on this site, our collective efforts to create a very different form of social organization – premised on our future freedom without bosses – will be evolved and pushed forward.
© 2009 Nas2EndWork (the NEW)