You’re welcome. Thanks for taking the time for consideration.
Maybe I wasn’t clear about it, but I don’t really imagine a top down approach, but a large scale integration of people in decision making and -understanding. This sounds overly optimistic regarding the human subject we have now. But a actually democratic society would, as I dialectically argue, let other kinds of subjectivity emerge. Especially letting go of the idea, everyone acts in their own interest (wich is the objective reality and concept of markets). Talking collective subjectivity…
This same, quite fundamental change of how we relate to each other, to society, how we decide thus think and how we percieve and approach work in general, would change what “a boring job” really is. Beeing motivated to work because it makes sense to you, and working in a soldary working culture, instead of this alienated, competitiv indifference (“money rules the world”), would definetly make we clean those toilets, knowing work is shared fairly and I get to enjoy a human society afterwards :)
Like, doing something boring for people you care about is a whole different experience.
In the end, of course, we’re talking utopia: by definition a world that doesn’t exist, that cannot yet exist. So there’s limits to imagining it “as realistic”.
Still, cultivating utopia is important, because why else, if not for hope, would you reach for radical change?
You’re welcome. Thanks for taking the time for consideration.
Maybe I wasn’t clear about it, but I don’t really imagine a top down approach, but a large scale integration of people in decision making and -understanding. This sounds overly optimistic regarding the human subject we have now. But a actually democratic society would, as I dialectically argue, let other kinds of subjectivity emerge. Especially letting go of the idea, everyone acts in their own interest (wich is the objective reality and concept of markets). Talking collective subjectivity…
This same, quite fundamental change of how we relate to each other, to society, how we decide thus think and how we percieve and approach work in general, would change what “a boring job” really is. Beeing motivated to work because it makes sense to you, and working in a soldary working culture, instead of this alienated, competitiv indifference (“money rules the world”), would definetly make we clean those toilets, knowing work is shared fairly and I get to enjoy a human society afterwards :)
Like, doing something boring for people you care about is a whole different experience.
In the end, of course, we’re talking utopia: by definition a world that doesn’t exist, that cannot yet exist. So there’s limits to imagining it “as realistic”. Still, cultivating utopia is important, because why else, if not for hope, would you reach for radical change?