September 2nd, 2021 marks the first anniversary of the death of Professor David Graeber — one of the most important anthropological thinkers of our time.
Graeber’s 2017 work “Bullshit jobs” got a lot of traction before the pandemic. Yet, many had to experience the pandemic to concede to its validity:
He titled his book “Bullshit jobs” because the productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to “bullshit jobs”: “a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.”
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So, the West’s direct presence in Afghanistan has failed to modernize it.
Our failure to communicate a glocal flavor of capitalism and women’s equality can be paralleled with the Soviets’ failure to establish their version of communism and equality.
In the previous article, a NATO security contractor near Kabul for the past four years conveyed his understanding of the local perception of woman equality initiatives in Afghanistan:
“Those women who were supporting equality were the prostitutes of the occupation forces, not much different from the local prostitutes or girls in the clubs of the occupying forces in WWII Europe”.
Such…
Imagine yourself feeling safer in the wheels or the sides of a plane about to take off!
Imagine the rivalry between you and your threat! The enormity of the crimes (to be) committed by both sides.
As the days went by -and my sentiment subsided- I realized that I had missed an obvious, undisputed fact:
In a city of more than 4 million, less than 10,000 local (0.25%) supporters of the “old regime” opted to leave the city with the allies! …
Reentry-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
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He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires work while it is being done as the next best thing to resurrecting a situation!
She: Bullshit!
He: Well, we usually talk to solve a problem! Even if we don’t solve the problem, by just sharing what is bothering us, become comfortable in our space! This is why Logos is important! Why…
Death-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
On the occasion of Jerry’s death, I was checking my archive to share a couple of artifacts with Jeanne and Scotty. A mail came from Medium on an authors challenge on the topics of Reentry, Space, Work, and Death. This coincidence made me write this to them:
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He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires work while…
Work-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires work while it is being done as the next best thing to resurrecting a situation!
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I know the importance of Space. I am risking Death for it since age 15 when I started smoking. You see, I do not smoke for the joy of smoking per se (my first…
Space-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work
She picked the remote of the Hi-End Naim Audio set to replay Nils Frahm’s “Says”; he could sense her unease
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He: One cannot fully cover one domain by omitting the other. I mean, you cannot talk about Reentry without mentioning Death, Work, and Space and vice versa! Reentry presupposes a space where you re-enter, requires work while it is being done as the next best thing to resurrecting a situation!
She: Bullshit!
He: Well, we usually talk to solve a problem! Even if we…
Part B: Thursday, August 5th, 2021, 21:34
He picked the Naim Audio remote to reduce the volume of “Brother Wind” and said to her:
- On the occasion of Jerry’s death, I was checking my archive to share a couple of artifacts with Jeanne and Scotty. A mail came from Medium on an authors challenge on the topics of Reentry, Space, Work, and Death. This coincidence made me write this to them:
Part A: Thursday, August 5th, 2021, 19:11
I will never forget my Afghan colleague and fraternal brother at Oxford, when we first met and asked him about the situation in Afghanistan:
“Dimitris, Afghan people do not resent invasions. We permit them, if not actively encourage them. I do not remember a time when we fought an invasion. At times the invaders feel that they are welcome.
But, we know that the place is ours, and that the occupants are temporary. So we just wait patiently as the morale of the invaders is eroded by our guerrilla tactics.”
Please do watch the excellent documentary Bitter Lake by Adam…
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