Quote: "Because they have no survival value on their own, they must get jobs. This isn't something that's optional for them, unless they're independently wealthy. It's either get a job or go hungry."
Response: I picked this quote because that’s exactly what happens every day and now I understand why that happens. Everyone has to get a job because the people of our culture keep the food under lock and key. So then adults have to work to get the money and then buy the food, which was once not under lock and key so then no one had to work to buy it. They only had to hunt or farm for it. Also Ishmael tells Julie that "they have no survival value on their own" and he was talking about us and this happens because in school they don’t teach us how survive by ourselves, they teach us things that are going to help us in the future in our jobs. Having a job is not optional because there is no other way of getting food only buying it and the only way of getting money is by working.
I really thought this is a good entry, and I agree with you. The thing that really struck me was your last sentence, "Having a job is not optional because there is no other way of getting food only buying it and the only way of getting money is by working." This really struck me, because I didn't think about it that way before. I knew that we have to get food that's under lock and key, but this made me think of a cycle:
ReplyDelete1. Work at job
2. Get paid
3. Buy food
4. Survive and reproduce
5. Children grow up and get job
But the thing that we need to change to get out of the cycle is to change the way number 5 happens. Instead of having them grow up knowing that "Getting a job to buy food" is the way things are, we need to show them alternatives, where they don't need to work to get something they already have. Overall, great post! ^_^
This is what I touched on in my journal. Schools really only get us prepared to be stuck in the same predicament that everyone before us got stuck in. We are nothing to them really but lemmings with money signs painted on our bodies. I think there is a way we could begin to loosen this idea's footing, which is to simply take classes or join groups that teach you how to survive. After learning that you could then teach it your children and so on and so forth and over time that just might blossom into something powerful.
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