The Nascence to End Work ..."The NEW":
“Nascence” means “birth.” To birth a movement to end work is the work of The NEW.
We have to be made commodities before anything else can, and we have to be made whole again before the earth can. (From: "Seeing The Communal Alternative".) "Gross disparities in access to the goodies" is the "planetary imbalance" I'm waiting for all the environmentalists to embrace. (From: "The Last Civil Rights Movement".)
In order to help stimulate discussion, weekly conversations between Pamela and her son Thandiwe will be posted on his page here. Hope you'll check them out and let us know what you think:
05.20.10 – 06.04.10 (and counting)
Friends:
I am (still) unable to access the website files (stored with the web host) from my son's house...reason still unknown. The web host says "it's a browser problem"...but it occurred the day after I uploaded the second "audio-interview", with no change in versions, and it occurs across browsers...so...
...I found out today (06.04.10)...in a random conversation in a cafe...
...that if the "ISP" gets me to the right "IP"...
...then the problem must be...
...internal to...the web host I use...
...so it seems, StartLogic,...it's back to you...
In any case, as I can't back up these files I don't want to keep working on them at the library...and my son and I are unable to upload new audio files....If you have any suggestions...or a Mac-compatible system (in the East Bay, Bay Area, California) from which we could upload more audio-interviews with my son...please let me know...Thanks.
PS: The more I ponder the effect of "the news"...the more I'm convinced...it's primary purpose...is passive obedience...as what we're told is "reality"...promotes the grossest insanity...and our own slavery. I think it's time to think of "the news" as meaning what you and I do...with our limited time...to leave behind...a planet in far better shape than we found it...having discovered that it is "our hands"...under our own command...that will return us to...what we once knew: "the communal".
06.01.10
Dear Sal,
Thank you for your letter. It was helpful. I appreciate your sharing...not just your ideas, but the heart behind them. Lynn hasn't replied...which makes sense as she 'works'...and the point of 'a job' is to ensure we're too tired to help our brothers and sisters...so...my getting feedback on your legal issues may take some time. That you, despite being under such stress, take the time to engage in long-distance discussion is very generous.
I actually don't think of us as "brainwashed"...even though it's incontestable to say we've been 'trained.' (After all, from the perspective of 'Power,' what's the point of all those dollars if they can't buy a sense of safety? a guarantee of our continued passivity?)
When I was reading your letter I couldn't help but think of Emile Zola's Germinal – one of the few honest treatments of the lives of working people under the harsh regime of 'The Industrial Revolution.' I'm sending it along in case you haven't read it and might enjoy traveling with Emile for awhile. He researched it exhaustively to ensure accuracy – it's based on an actual event.
I can relate to your distaste for the state...but (as David Cay Johnston writes), "there's a reason that 35,000 people are registered as lobbyists in Washington, double the number of lobbyists employed there in 2000." The financial industry particularly has been yanking the state's chain for centuries....and my delving into their antics has definitely shown...you gotta follow where the money goes.
But I think "the state"...along with "the police"...exist not just as means...to transfer our dollars to the back pockets of the wealthy's jeans...but also to serve as buffers...so that "the puppet-master" behind the scenes can remain discreetly hidden. For example, Bill Gates is a major funder of these demonic geoengineering schemes you mentioned.
Zola is one of the very few ancestors (that I know of) who grapples with this problem.
In my life / experience it has been the literal truth that the ancestors, the earth, and each other are sources of power – the only true power...and that the force, manipulation and control the power-drunk are obsessed with...is illusion.
Our ancestors went to their deaths yet wrestling with the very same vampire we wrestle with today...it's critical that we honor them...and advance their gift.
Did you ever read this poem by Emily Dickinson?
I took my Power in my Hand –
And went against the World –
'Twas not so much as David – Had –
But I was twice as Bold –
I aimed my pebble – but myself
was all the one that fell –
Was it Goliath – was too large –
Or was myself – too small?
When we join with them we make them bigger...so that one day...their enormous love will be big enough.
On the very last page of Flesh, when the narrator asks Ernest, essentially, "why keep writing when nobody hears you?" he answers..."Wait."
Truth will out.
(It is a mathematical certainty.)
...Looking forward to our future freedom without bosses....
Brothers and sisters...
Happy May Day Yet To Be!...
...as this site approaches its one year anniversary...
...arguing that the only way to be free is to get off our knees...
...and embrace across the categories....
...And as "the system's" destroying the planet....
...it's imperative we withdraw our hands from it...
...and turn instead to our own project...
...which could be called: "re-incorporating the power-drunk...
...into the rest of us"...
...or, speaking more subjectively,...
..."listening to our bodies"...
...or...maybe...
..."seeding our freedom by being willing...
...to believe in good fellowship!"...
This site argues for the elegance of a theory and a movement...
...that advances our ancestors' gifts...
...and crosses borders of issue, state, race, religion and "complicity status"... ***
We've been falsely divided by a few elites globally...
...who are terrified of our becoming unified...
...and of our realizing that we don't need them...
...at all.
This site and the book appealed...
...to your support to keep it real...
...but that support has yet to congeal...
One man's given $12, another $20, and the third (a real prize) $45.
This practical parsimony comes at a time...
...when a flood of ideas are coming down the line:
...a kitchen to extend good fellowship...
...festivities for the youth here...
– as what middle-class movements find "fun"...for youth in the "street"...
...may not be.
So I'm asking more directly...in the hope you also see the crossroad where we stand...
...and the importance of the alternative taking material form...i.e. being seen...
...so that many more can change what they "believe."
...And...
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.(From: "The Ruses Used To Rend Us"]
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... (George Eliot, Adam Bede)
"There is a terrible coercion in 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"]
Brothers and sisters:
Is there a word or phrase you'd like to taze?...or set ablaze...in innumerable ways...because of the walls they raise...and the ways they degrade...?
...for example...: "We need jobs;" "The experts say..."...
*** “We cannot allow good fellowship to be riven by false divisions."
Not long ago I passed by folks parading with pickets – calling attention to podrunk thievery....
By the time I'd reversed track and was on my way back the police had been called...to harass them....
One man in blue was talking to a woman clearly he was attracted to...
...I heard him gripe he didn't like being a tool for those who rule...
...so they smiled at me good-naturedly when I found myself bursting...
...into the song: "Which Side Are You On?"
Though it's guaranteed the power-drunk...
...are busy organizing as many complicity-seeking folks (caught in system-stoked invisibility) as they can...
...(police especially)...
...though this is a given...we can't allow good fellowship to be riven...
...by false divisions.
The majority of police are aware of the devastating cost to everyday folks...
...of the demonic schemes of the financial industry...
...but there are those, we know, being paid to sow...
...racial tensions between us...
...and as the stakes have stepped up...
...we'd best step our game up...
...and not hesitate to pitch our good news to the folks in blue...
...(and if you want Waking Up for this use, I'll send it to you)...
...police are forced to be "slaves" too....
...We can't make assumptions...
...based on salary-given functions....
...the fist called "the job" has us by the short-hairs too.
[See "Thank You Sandy"]
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)