Simon,
I think I see your point for some folks in some types of income-producing
efforts. But how am I going to eat, build my condo, warm it, get the
garbage picked up, read a book, and all those other "manufacturing"
efforts that I use without thinking about each day without companies,
farmers, and other collective orgs?
Certainly the Internet can change the nature of some types of work and
work organization.
Equally, many people have historically depended on work group connections
to provide their social life and community as well as their livelihood.
While some may find this on the Internet, many will not. Others will find
only some of this through Internet communities.
I do not think the listserv responses you have were meant to denigrate
your work but rather to understand it in the context of what we know and
what we can imagine. And, despite my weekly trip to a farmer's market to
buy from women I know, I cannot quite see how 'unorg' fits into these
aspects of life. Or why we should not try to improve the organizations we
have now - even if we see a different future, we need to improve what we
have to help it get ready for a transformation or to help the individuals
within it see that they have other options.
Am I misreading your comments? Missing something obvious? I have just
come from long volunteer days and weeks working on the Dedication of the
new Women In Military Service for America Memorial. So perhaps the brain
is too past-oriented, even though the Dedication was a wonderful time with
so many other women veterans and current military members there.
patrica frame
Patrica Frame Strategies for Human Resources StratHR4PF@aol.com
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