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Dec 8
matthewnewton:

#Occupy As Live Action Role-PlayingBy William Ball“We have so much knowledge, so many skills, maybe too much time and   energy. Our knowledge is widely distributed and too easily evaporates   into the cloud, but we have more of it than ever. We may have fewer   skills than past societies (how many cobblers are left?), but there are   more of us and a surprising diversity of interest between. For good or   for ill, our time and energy, once consumed by a race to the top of   working life, increasingly lie fallow. Surplus upon surplus. This is   nothing new, neither an emergent condition nor a radical statement. It’s   just the way of things. So what?”Read more
[Photograph by Eric Spiegelman]

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matthewnewton:

#Occupy As Live Action Role-Playing
By William Ball

“We have so much knowledge, so many skills, maybe too much time and energy. Our knowledge is widely distributed and too easily evaporates into the cloud, but we have more of it than ever. We may have fewer skills than past societies (how many cobblers are left?), but there are more of us and a surprising diversity of interest between. For good or for ill, our time and energy, once consumed by a race to the top of working life, increasingly lie fallow. Surplus upon surplus. This is nothing new, neither an emergent condition nor a radical statement. It’s just the way of things. So what?”

Read more

[Photograph by Eric Spiegelman]

Two thumbs up.


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