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THE CONDITION OF CONSIOUSNESS:THE HISTORY OF LABOR

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THE CONDITION OF CONSIOUSNESS:THE HISTORY OF LABOR Empty THE CONDITION OF CONSIOUSNESS:THE HISTORY OF LABOR

Post  Labordigger Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:41 am

What makes consciousness and creativity good, active and more accessible? The conditioning and current condition of consciousness is strongly influenced by the relationship that people have with labor. Your relationship to labor is not your own, it is administered to you by government through peers, family, teachers, and media and belongs to hierarchy. This relationship to labor belongs to hierarchy because it is created and controlled by hierarchy. It may also be true that the higher up in hierarchy may have a relationship to labor that the general populace doesn’t know about.

Consider this possible version of the history of labor and division of labor. A long time ago before money, distant hierarchy, detached and abusive hierarchy, division of labor and manipulation of religion, humans may have had a different relationship to labor. At some point, when division of labor was still new to people, though it was gradual, the process of development created work that was often boring, painful or humiliating. People can be abused or humiliated under division of labor conditions. It wasn’t work that people were avoiding it was certain kinds of work and under certain conditions. But still who would have ever wanted to admit that they wanted to avoid work and under what conditions?

At first it is not only plausible but likely that the problem would have been discussed clearly, although cause analogy is complex. But over time, several generations at least, if the problem did not get solved and as a struggle with it occurred repeatedly the conditions for manipulation of people by people became quite legitimate to reality and need.

Therefore a likely suspect of change from egalitarian to managed society is division of labor. With the evolution of this mastery over the requirement of labor we likely would have experienced more tedious work in some arrangements and cases that needed to be done and therefore an increase in labor avoidance or problems with who is to do the labor. Equally important is the fact that the labor work must have been relatively unmanaged, sometimes dysfunctional and often heartbreakingly wasteful and even frustrating.

There was a time in our distant past before external hierarchy (15) existed. During this time labor was done mostly by necessity of basic needs. It would seem that society had not only a different relationship to labor but that since then labor had developed a tainted image. As division of labor evolved, so did a tedious experience with it and eventually labor avoidance, and consequently ignorance of it, must have become a problem. If so hierarchy would have had to take more control over people and the division of responsibilities.

If this thinking is correct or even vaguely correct leadership would have had to take more control of labor and managing labor (16) turned into people managing people (17). Labor is only one subject among many that embodies a society but it is basic enough to generate difficulties if anything about it is ignored.

A separation of attitudes and the possibility of a more distant management (18) occurred, and still do, when common workers come to assume that certain activities of the work are “not what I am good at”. Detached management (19) is a predictable outgrowth of distant management when numerous assumptions are made and used long term replacing old blood with new blood (20).

Management also makes assumptions about certain activities and of what are probably many might include thoughts such as “I don’t want to do”. If it is true that some managers don’t want to do certain kinds of work and workers assume they can’t do certain kinds of work we have a mirror condition creating a dual conditioning (21). From this point on until today a friction exists between the work and the management of the work. Your relationship to labor is not your own, it is administered to you by peers, family, teachers, government and media.

This management of people mentality, a condition, was still in its dark ages (22) when people came to America from Europe. The industrial revolution made the possibility of shining light on this condition a reality and the information age and the internet is the light and current reality to finally overcoming this ancient condition, what seems to be a collective sickness (23) over who is going to do the work and who is not.

If the American people ever give our due attention to avoidance of labor half of our problems would just go away. Avoidance of labor is not negligent, irresponsible, abusive or slacking off although it can be all of these things if done for the wrong reasons or in the wrong ways.

This real chance to improve the experience of all that we know is fleeting and brief because disruptive behavior, from people lashing out for all kinds of reasons in hundreds or thousands of kinds of ways over the pains that this under developed and twisted relationship to labor causes is neglected and because it has become obvious that elitists are unnecessary and even harmful. Therefore an urgent and primary question for current reality becomes not what makes consciousness good but what makes it bad or just not as complete as desired or natural?

With our lifestyle in constant need of repair or upkeep, by design, we never have time to reflect other options as they come obviously needed and available. For example; what would economic conditions be like if people could invest in people, systems, ideas and concepts instead of markets, a few people, a few ideas and manipulated concepts? What would conditions be like if workers could invest in such arrangements that grow from their own participation as they emerge, change and challenge the minds of workers? For that matter; what would conditions be like if workers used more of their own intelligence and creativity on a regular basis?

The Zeitgeist Movement has suggested a car pool of some sort where citizens wouldn’t necessarily own a car. The Perma-culturists have created an “edible forest” and other interesting gardening concepts. Even if you don’t want to do any farming or gardening, if you’re only other choice is to do such work or buy from farmers using abusive methods at full speed you might be more inclined to take some interest depending on the consequences.

The arrangements that we live every day are not necessarily the only ones possible, these situations are derived conditions. Some of the people who changed society were just making money and not necessarily making society into anything deliberately. In the same way I consider it likely that everybody takes things a little easier physically when we are not feeling efficient with our time and effort even at work. Conditions are not necessarily to be accepted by assumption or obedience.

Life is hard, so is deliberate change. If we don’t choose the arrangements of difficulty we may find ourselves in an abyss of obstacles and complications cluttering up every path to anything good. And once there people will say, “How did it get this way? Or whatever is said, it’s all the same. We have been allowing ourselves to be psychologically, economically, structurally, and socially herded like animals and robots preoccupied with gadgetry and in awe of manmade creations, by people who didn’t do any part of the creating for purposes that have nothing to do with creation or of creating anything desirable. “We have been programmed all of our life to shut out our personal choices and conform with society.” (24)

Choosing a good life style is not as piecemeal as one might assume if it is to be a conscientious life. It is either all or nothing. In relation to ideas and progress for liberty or a good life, often after all our changes we’ve done nothing if we can’t at least retain the good and work through discarding the bad or just old ways. Choosing arrangements for a good society is not piecemeal either. If we are not comprehensive for our times we may have done nothing after a lot of work and time. We could be losing it all without even knowing it.

“Hitler once boasted: ‘What luck for rulers that men do not think.’” (25)

When we make a couple of good choices they may only be good in context or only if we make more good choices. They may often seem good but life is still just as complex and disappointing or difficult as it ever was. No matter how many changes we make, if they are not fully thought out or if they are partial in purpose or design, they may require too much time and energy to maintain instead of supporting the things that are important to us.

Using someone else’s ideas or methods often requires some training although the training received often ends up being partial or broken up and the users of many ideas and methods, “from others” can be frustrating, redundant and tedious. If you are not familiar with this life experience congratulations but many are very familiar and all of these types of life experiences are unnecessary.

Actually just about all of society involves the use of “the ideas of others” and so any part of living in society may be partial and in a deteriorating condition when society seem stagnant or in decline. And so our society is filled with others teaching the ideas of others, using the ideas of others to do the teaching and understanding what and how to teach and learners wondering how to make it all work somehow. Ideas accumulate to become “larger than the sum of their parts” (26) although they can deteriorate if we forget how to use them.

“From a very early age, we are taught to break apart problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we pay a hidden, enormous price. We can no longer see the consequences for our actions; we lose our intrinsic sense of connection to a larger whole. When we then try to ‘see the big picture,’ we try to reassemble fragments in our minds, to list and organize all the pieces. But as physicist David Bohm says, ‘the task is futile – similar to trying to reassemble the fragments of a broken mirror to see a true reflection. Thus, after a while we give up trying to see the whole altogether’." (27)

“The tools and ideas presented in this book are for destroying the illusion that the world is created of separate, unrelated forces. When we give up this Illusion – we can then build ‘learning organizations,’ organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.” (27)

Every day we get up in the morning we may make attempts at arranging conditions or changes for adjustment to life. We keep life the same all the time too. The changes we make are not necessarily deliberate or in order, and not necessarily what we want or not quite the way we want it, i.e. wrong relevance, or not entirely knowing and targeted relevance. Some of us do better than others; some have a lot better experience with it than others. Each time we make a choice we make some change, however small. As we make these choices/changes, if they are not comprehensive, deliberate, planned etc. we have a hard time keeping traction on what we want to do with them productively and the same conditioning can go on day after day or a lifetime.

Both consciousness and labor have yin and yang. When one side of either topic is lost or forgotten it interferes with both topics and both sides of each topic. It leaves a hole within you that can never be filled. Neither topic can bloom fully in your mind, in your life or in your ways when one fourth of it is lost. The two topics are both basic and have a composition of compliment to one another.

Productive labor is dependent on consciousness; time for contentment of consciousness is dependent on productive labor. Therefore they have an attachment to each other. For most people, except for people who use avoidance of labor in wrong ways or for wrong reasons, both are required to be in good quality before contentment can be achieved. Like the industrial revolution complex convergences must occur to bring about desired conditions. When such conditions exist in labor the yin (which we can name avoidance of labor) and the yang (which can be named the choice to do labor) can be raised to a new level of consciousness. Such is the case with social or collective evolution (28).

“Revolution, the overthrowing of one paradigm for a new, if it’s at the same level of consciousness is not effective in creating change. Why haven’t we noticed? Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. As much as we talk of our desire for world peace or even peace of mind, it continues to elude us. It seems it is time we individually wake up out of our insanity and start a collective evolution, rather than a revolution.” (29)

(15)External hierarchy- Hierarchy that you did not elect, request or want but is an authority over you anyway.
(16) Managing labor – Interpreting the requirements and conditions around the labor that has to be done for the best efficiency including quality.
(17) Managing people – The act of getting people to perform in and maintaining well balanced conditions efficiently.
(18) Distant management – The distance from the heart or community affairs of those doing the work is a concern but the phrase is generally thought of as some physical distance away. Workers seldom know what these managers are up to. These managers may enter or support External Hierarchy for all we know.
(19) Detached management – Positions of the management label of which those holding such positions suffer no loss by poor management or have no particular ability for good management.
(20) Old blood with new blood – as generations pass people who have experience, knowledge and remaining connection with existing conditions get replaced by others who are often less able to fill current needs.
(21) Dual conditioning – At the same time one category or arrangement is being changed, conditioned or evolving, another is also changing in the same but opposite ways by the same influences producing two opposite results or conditions. Differences in opinions and paradigms occur as do laws and conflicting and betrayal of information from both sides.
(22) By “its dark ages” I am referring to a battered association with information related to people ignoring themselves about the same topic consistently over multiple generations.
(23) Collective sickness (Referenced from the video Esoteric Agenda (beware: the reference is only vague))
(24) –SonsOfLibertyAcademy- Chris Duane
(25) Hitler once boasted - John C. Maxwell How Successful People Think
(26) larger than the sum of their parts Youtube video: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
(27) From a very early age –Peter Senge- The Fifth Discipline
(28) Collective evolution – Collective consciousness is how an autonomous individual comes to identify with a larger group/structure, and as such, how patterns of commonality among individuals bring legible unity to those structures.
(29) Jarl Says (a web site)

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