Pamela's Blog

"Round And Round And Round We Go But Not Merrily"

"Maybe The View From The Road Will Be Better"

"Naming the Future: “What Do We Call It? Who Cares? It Means ‘Freedom’”"

"Getting To Our Future Freedom"

"Revealing the false face of complicity..." "...and countering it with fellowship"

"...Thandiwe's conversations with Pamela"

About Pamela:

I wrote Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work for multiple reasons.

First, I believe we are at a crossroads, and that our so-called rulers are driving us off a cliff, and that it’s imperative that we take the driver’s seat.

Second, a system that strokes the egos of the few while destroying the dreams of the many is not acceptable – it’s long past time for that to end.

But I also wrote this book because we as working people, particularly those of us who work with our hands, have no voice.

By that I mean something more intangible than the fact that we aren’t taught our own history in school, or that our elected representatives are mostly drawn from the ranks of wealth, or that our stories don’t make it to Hollywood, or that our voices aren’t heard in the corporate-dominated media.

I mean that as working people our perspectives, our practicality and down-to-earth-ness is actually diminished by these institutions, subtly dismissed as ‘childish’ or ‘simple’ or ‘primitive’ – and that we’re undermined without being able to pinpoint exactly how.

A system that ranks and slots people, that hoards the goodies for the few – for that system to function, the vast majority, who keep the human world rolling along, must be persuaded that they are not ‘smart’ enough to run the system themselves, and that it must be left to “the experts” to run. This diminishment devastates our sense of ourselves, wastes our power and potential, and fetters us with undeserved shame.

It’s wrong, and I’m sick of seeing it. Sick of watching my fellow wage-slaves labor for a system unworthy of us – and for absolutely no reason but to stroke the egos of the few.

I’ve worked in the formal wage system since I was fifteen. Before that I earned money “babysitting” or was given money by my parents. But at a very young age I absorbed the conditioning that I must ‘perform’ for my food. This is a con.

My whole life I’ve jumped through the traditional hoops: grades, school, wage, rules…endless hoops to ‘prove’ myself worthy of breathing, sucking up the same air as the pretenders-to-rule.

I’ve worked in offices and on construction sites, and, as the “Preface” of Waking Up states, I’ve learned that this system is abusive. That it’s not set up for us, we who do the work – and this is a massive, monumental wrong, one that our ancestors have been working for millennia to correct.

Having learned these things I want to share what I’ve learned, fulfill my part of the relay, do what I can to help correct this wrong.

Our allegiance must be to our sources of power – the ancestors, the earth, and each other – and naught else. We can only enlarge ourselves, thereby enlarging the realm of the possible for all those around us, by reconnecting with our sources of power. There’s simply no other way to solder that Abyss.

The book Waking Up weaves my story into the theory, the analysis, the history and the visioning. I’m in there between the lines. I hope to meet you there.

Take your time.

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