THE NOW POSSIBLE RADICAL ASCENT.
New Economy, New Work, New Culture
A massive and variegated array of recently discovered new technologies allows the ascent to a radically New Economy, which will no longer manufacture in gigantic factories, but instead in “small rooms.” This economy will be local, decentralized, in many respects rural, incomparably more sustainable, and oriented towards the manufacturing of products that serve authentic and genuine human needs. A dramatically new organization of work can be developed on the basis of this New Economy: 10 hours a week will be High-Tech- Self-Providing Work, 10 hours a week will be Job-Work in New Work Enterprises, and 20 hours a week will be Work that one really wants to do. High-Tech-Self-providing comprises a range of productive activities from the raising of food (Permaculture, Vertical Agriculture, fishponds, etc.) to the self-building of the dwellings for one’s life, to the self-generation of electricity to the small space manufacturing of appliances and also of a large spectrum of electric means of transportation. Examples of New Work Enterprises are the making and distribution of Eco-cement, the small room manufacturing of Air-conditioners, and the small-room manufacturing of electric Motor Cycles. Work that one really wants to do increases one’s strength, gives meaning to one’s life, and moves one beyond the passive observing of life into the full and to the hilt real living of it. Nothing less than the transformation into this new organization of work and the attendant generation of a New Culture will solve the global problems of the depletion of our resources, and of the degradation of the nature in which we live. The new start we need requires a New Economy, New Work, and a New Culture.
From: http://ping.fm/vsmQI
Monday, March 19, 2012
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Frithjof Bergmann's Blog SERIES ON: New Economy, New Work, New Life - No. 2
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
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
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
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