Month: April 2020
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Total Work’s Ideological Capture Via YOUR Enthusiasm
You might be inclined to think that the chief way that the Total Work system remains afloat is by “sticks and circuses” alone. The sticks come in the forms of public education disciplining, massive student loan debt, wage slavery, and the fact of being coerced into taking a bullshit job. And the circuses are evident…
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The Ripening Of Love And A Call To Art
The views we have about love’s presumptive necessary course, views often held by the art world, are very skewed. As you get older, we’ve heard, you’ll grow apart from your significant other. Or you’ll take each other for granted. Or you’ll be less sexually interested in one another. Or you’ll come to be like “friends”…
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The Gift Economy w/ Andrew Taggart
Please enjoy my discussion of the gift economy with participants at The Stoa.
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There Is No Meaningful Work Except Insofar As EVERYTHING Is Meaningful
Step 1: Disentangle Meaning from Work Meaning is something you essentially are. Work is something you happen to do. What you essentially are is not what you happen to do. Therefore, meaning is not work. It follows immediately that work, of any kind, cannot be meaningful. It also follows immediately that “meaningful work” is an…
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Deconstructing Total Work And Finding The Joy Of Being
Step 1: Leave No Stone Unturned Simply examine every conception, every belief, and every feeling you have about the allegedly special value accorded to work and see that it—whatever it is—has no basis, no legs to stand on. Go straight to the heart of the cultural idolatry you’ve inherited. Leave no stone unturned. Don’t let the “fever” you’ve felt in connection…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 