Seven or eight Calamities, or Disasters, or Tsunamis, or Biblical Plagues are close to crashing down on us. But at least as important: possible now is also an ASCENT, a Rising Upwards, the climb to a higher, more intelligent, more human, more cheerful next chapter in the human story. That is the fundamental Either/Or of our time.
Anything merely cosmetic is not enough. We must devise something that will engage the vast majority of humankind, that will bring into action not just a marginal small group which will eat less meat, or will do more recycling, or will use less electricity -- but a plan, a goal, a vision that will make sense and will appeal to the overwhelming majority of people on the planet that abhor and hate and loath the current system. (Very much including the people of India and of Africa, where I am at this moment)
Therefore, a radically New Economy is just Part I. Other Parts must be a new System of Work. Why? -- Because the now domineering “Job-System” is the root cause of all the other calamities that threaten to engulf us. The “Job-System” coerces us into the rat-race of economic growth and therefore into the squandering of resources, and therefore into the sinking ever deeper into national debts, and therefore into the heating of the earth, and on and on.
If that is Part II, it in turn makes possible Part III: The Ascent upwards towards a New Life.
No 3. In Series very soon.
From: http://ping.fm/gdX6y
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Frithjof Bergmann's Blog Note 1
Rub your eyes! Take one look at where we are! North Africa in Revolution, Uprisings in Greece, and Italy and Barcelona, USA downgraded as a dubious risk – 80% of the population of the planet “Desert-people” – not socially weak, not poor, not unemployed – but “Desert-people” and 20% “Oasis-people”. And the climate, and the waste of resources, and the burning down of the last remnants of the tokens of equality.
Draw from this a very first, obvious conclusion. Dabbing, small, cosmetic changes are not just “too little,” they are dangerous, they piss away precious time – like taking Aspirin instead of facing that you have got Aids. What we need is not here and there the turning of a trivial wheel. We need to stop and think and devise a plan that is adequate to the immense magnitude and the galloping speed of the situation. What we need is major, major: is a new start, a new beginning.
It is the building of a second, supplementary, radically different economy – one for the soon 90% of desert people, based on the highest, the best, the most advanced technologies.
From: http://newworknewculture.com/content/note-1
Draw from this a very first, obvious conclusion. Dabbing, small, cosmetic changes are not just “too little,” they are dangerous, they piss away precious time – like taking Aspirin instead of facing that you have got Aids. What we need is not here and there the turning of a trivial wheel. We need to stop and think and devise a plan that is adequate to the immense magnitude and the galloping speed of the situation. What we need is major, major: is a new start, a new beginning.
It is the building of a second, supplementary, radically different economy – one for the soon 90% of desert people, based on the highest, the best, the most advanced technologies.
From: http://newworknewculture.com/content/note-1
Monday, April 11, 2011
Frithjof Bergmann's Blog New Work North Africa
During the last few weeks I have tried to establish some first connections between the groups that initiated the North African Revolutions and New Work. What I have been doing is extraordinarily plain: in various ways I have collected relevant E-mail addresses and in the process of some back and forth exchange I proposed that I would come for a two or three day visit to Cairo or to wherever the person I was writing to suggested. I explained that the sole condition from my side would be that a handful of people – between 8 and 12 – would commit themselves to engage with me in extended conversations during those two or three days. The flight and the rest I would pay for by myself. The purpose is to explore whether there is any conceivable way in which New Work could be of use in the coming stages of these world-altering liberations. The purpose of my posting this both in my blog and in Facebook is to invite any and all of you to send me further addresses, or to assist in any other way that your imagination whispers to you.
From: http://ping.fm/JiaG1
From: http://ping.fm/JiaG1
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
New Work and Egypt
Wed. Feb. 9th. Joburg, South Africa
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/Twg4X
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/Twg4X
New Work and Egypt
Wed. Feb. 9th. Joburg, South Africa
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/thVAd
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/thVAd
New Work and Egypt
Wed. Feb. 9th. Joburg, South Africa
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/XWGs1
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/XWGs1
New Work and Egypt
Wed. Feb. 9th. Joburg, South Africa
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/gf1tY
Let us, for a start, observe a few patent surface characteristics of the current “uprising” in Egypt. There is to begin with the fact that it was a surprise. Not a surprise on the scale of the collapse of the Iron Wall between East and West in ’89, but nonetheless similar in that this surprise also shows how many worlds removed from any contact with reality our caste of high-priest politicians and economist seems permanently to be. A gamut of specific features are additional proof that the official rhetoric comes from wooden heads whose ears are sealed with wax. Not one of them would have predicted that an uprising could last as long as this one already has, none of them would have predicted that its support could be as broad – as trans-class, trans-cultural and trans-religious – as it has turned out to be. (observe the caleidoscope of costumes and dresses that the protesters wear.) Certainly, none of the mud-heads who we permit to rule us would have predicted that an uprising could be as disciplined as this one – despite provocations – has managed to remain.
Of course world-wide there are hosts of people who were not particularly surprised, but who were joyous and relieved and who in great choruses sang: “At last! at last! Perhaps, the beginning has at long last begun.” The hosts of those many have of course a thoroughly different understanding of the dynamic that moves our world, from the hypnotic trance ideas in which our leaders mumble their mantras. (“Economic Growth”) They full-well know that the abysmally deep problem, very especially, in the so-called Near East is the “monstrous split” between the minute cast of semi-god like financiers and the entire rest of us, i.e. the collapsed and barely still struggling middle-class and the billions that are officially the global poor. They know that this is the real problem, and in different shadings they already proclaim already now that getting rid of Mubarak, and even installing some window-dresssing of democracy “will not be enough!” And we of course know from countless examples, ranging from the United States across the whole spectrum to India, that they are dead right; that it will take a great deal more to close the “monstrous split.”
This perspective now allows us to summarize the dramatic significance that the Rebellion in Egypt has for New Work.
First: What is happening in Egypt shows that the monstrous split between those bathing in money and those barely surviving is not just a moral scandal, but can indeed become dangerous for the governments now in power. New Work has been saying this for years. Egypt proves that this true.
Secondly: New Work is so far the only organization that has an elaborated, tested, detailed and realistic plan for the closing and healing of the monstrous split. (The combination of a New Economy, New Work and New Culture.) Egypt shows that the roof is burning; that the split must be closed soon, before it is too late. So Egypt is also an opportunity: those who have connections to Egypt should help those who are developing New Work, to introduce New Work into Egypt. Getting rid of Mubarak, and hiding the real problems behind a curtain of democracy will not be enough. (Look at South Africa and India and a hundred other examples.) Maybe a version of New Work that fits Egypt could solve the real problems that Egypt has.
From: http://ping.fm/gf1tY
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
New Work India
(I am leaving for India today, and will be there for ten days. We have prepared a Power Point that consists of pictures of the assembled Technologies of New Work. This is the brief Introduction that precedes these pictures.)
The Task is to make a presentation that will be succinct and brief, and that will give a persuasive and attractive introduction of NEW WORK (of what could develop into “Lift India Technologies”) to our Indian hosts.
One crucial difference between NW and virtually all other relief or development efforts of which I know is that NW aims at a complete, comprehensive, fully thought-out alternative SYSTEM profoundly different from the system that we now have.
N.W. encompasses: New Economy, New Work, New Culture (also New Philosophy) but New Work is a new System because all these components are integrated and coherent and of one piece: in fact they mutually strengthen and support and enhance each other. For the purposes of a cursory first introduction we shall leave nearly the whole of this aside. For this first glimpse we shall focus on what generally would be called the reduction of poverty. (In the context of New Work we do not speak of “poverty” we instead talk “the Monster Bifurcation” in 20% “Oasis People” and 80% “Desert People” (or also of the bifurcation into the handful of semi-god like “financiers” and the ever more homogenous amalgam of the totality of the rest of us – c.f. the descent of the middle class into “desert people.) The question is: How does New Work propose to diminish and eventually to abolish this bifurcation?
Our approach is in some ways different from that of others who also work on this problem. What we have attempted is very closely tied to extraordinarily young technologies, some ultra simple, some on the very edge of the ultra high-tech. Unlike others we do not use the terminology of “Basic Needs,” instead we have demarcated 10 Foundational Areas – the areas that represent the 10 most threatening “monthly bills.” In these areas we have over the years identified arrays of technologies that to the greatest feasible extent satisfy two distinct but also connected requirements:
For one, they should enable groups of “Desert People” or also “Disposable People” to “make something for themselves.” That for us is a pivotal, much quoted sentence. In other words we search for technologies that allow people to become more self-reliant, less economically dependent, in a very serious sense of that word, more “free.” New Work probably would have died in its infancy if an astounding diversity of innovations that make “Economic Indpendence” possible – that no longer require large factories but allow manufacturing in “small spaces” – had not evolved in the last twenty years.
The other, second, (hoped for, but not always attained) attribute is that these often amazingly new, decentralizing technologies enable groups of “Desert or Disposable People” to also evolve co-operatively structured serious profit returning flourishing enterprises – whose “market” are the 80 or 90% of the earth’s population that gradually descend.
The 10 domains to which we have given priority are:
1. Housing
2. Energy
3. (Phone)
4. Food
5. Appliances/Furniture
6. Cloths/Materials/Shoes
7. Education
8. Health
9. Computer Tech.
10. Mobility
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From: http://www.newworknewculture.com/content/new-work-india
The Task is to make a presentation that will be succinct and brief, and that will give a persuasive and attractive introduction of NEW WORK (of what could develop into “Lift India Technologies”) to our Indian hosts.
One crucial difference between NW and virtually all other relief or development efforts of which I know is that NW aims at a complete, comprehensive, fully thought-out alternative SYSTEM profoundly different from the system that we now have.
N.W. encompasses: New Economy, New Work, New Culture (also New Philosophy) but New Work is a new System because all these components are integrated and coherent and of one piece: in fact they mutually strengthen and support and enhance each other. For the purposes of a cursory first introduction we shall leave nearly the whole of this aside. For this first glimpse we shall focus on what generally would be called the reduction of poverty. (In the context of New Work we do not speak of “poverty” we instead talk “the Monster Bifurcation” in 20% “Oasis People” and 80% “Desert People” (or also of the bifurcation into the handful of semi-god like “financiers” and the ever more homogenous amalgam of the totality of the rest of us – c.f. the descent of the middle class into “desert people.) The question is: How does New Work propose to diminish and eventually to abolish this bifurcation?
Our approach is in some ways different from that of others who also work on this problem. What we have attempted is very closely tied to extraordinarily young technologies, some ultra simple, some on the very edge of the ultra high-tech. Unlike others we do not use the terminology of “Basic Needs,” instead we have demarcated 10 Foundational Areas – the areas that represent the 10 most threatening “monthly bills.” In these areas we have over the years identified arrays of technologies that to the greatest feasible extent satisfy two distinct but also connected requirements:
For one, they should enable groups of “Desert People” or also “Disposable People” to “make something for themselves.” That for us is a pivotal, much quoted sentence. In other words we search for technologies that allow people to become more self-reliant, less economically dependent, in a very serious sense of that word, more “free.” New Work probably would have died in its infancy if an astounding diversity of innovations that make “Economic Indpendence” possible – that no longer require large factories but allow manufacturing in “small spaces” – had not evolved in the last twenty years.
The other, second, (hoped for, but not always attained) attribute is that these often amazingly new, decentralizing technologies enable groups of “Desert or Disposable People” to also evolve co-operatively structured serious profit returning flourishing enterprises – whose “market” are the 80 or 90% of the earth’s population that gradually descend.
The 10 domains to which we have given priority are:
1. Housing
2. Energy
3. (Phone)
4. Food
5. Appliances/Furniture
6. Cloths/Materials/Shoes
7. Education
8. Health
9. Computer Tech.
10. Mobility
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From: http://www.newworknewculture.com/content/new-work-india
Saturday, January 8, 2011
A New Global Definition
The sheer power of the handful of multi-billion investors has reached pinnacles of amazing height. The world over papers constantly write about their psychological mood. Are they loosing confidence in this or that country (Ireland? Portugal? Italy? Spain?) Are they less optimistic about this or that than they formerly were? It is reminiscent of the era in the cold war in which experts speculated about the exact arrangement of the dignitaries on the Balcony of the Kremlin. What precisely did the shift from one spot to another portend? Of course there are differences, but it nonetheless may be time to introduce a hitherto not used word, so as to make people blink and wake up. Could this not be a new and of course surprisingly different shape of what has been called “Fascism” in the past. One difference is of course that this latest form is not national but global. Every government on every continent grovels in the dung before the pedestal of these potentates: What social programs shall we cut? What limbs of our budgets must we amputate so that the financiers will not withdraw their billions dropping hands from our land?
From: http://ping.fm/46qPA
From: http://ping.fm/46qPA
The Basic Either/Or
Face up to a YES or NO! A fundamental Either/Or. We can either continue to throw buckets and buckets of money to paper over the calamities that wax ever more virulent because of the deterioration of the Job-System OR we can make a New Start.
The New Start is simple:
1. Take steps in the direction of Economic Independence (Demand the setting up of New Work Centers).
2. Move yourself and encourage others to move towards work that they seriously and deeply desire to do.
From: http://ping.fm/rMiIg
The New Start is simple:
1. Take steps in the direction of Economic Independence (Demand the setting up of New Work Centers).
2. Move yourself and encourage others to move towards work that they seriously and deeply desire to do.
From: http://ping.fm/rMiIg
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