Re: [pf] "The Market" replacing communal life (was: warped news)

At 10:26 18/4/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> I think I understand exactly the poverty Illich speaks of when he says:
>
>>The peculiarly modern inability to use personal endowments, communal
life, and environmental resources in an autonomous way infects every aspect
of life where a professionally engineered commodity has succeeded in
replacing a culturally shaped use-value. The opportunity to experience
personal and social satisfaction outside the market is thus destroyed.
>>
>
> .. doing things like buying CDs and shutting out the world with their
noise.  Music used to bring people together, give them opportunity to
connect with each other.  Now it keeps us apart.
> ...
>a circle of women sitting on dining room chairs which have been set on a
shady lawn, peeling and slicing apples.  They also are obviously talking.
Is this work or leisure?  It is both, meshed together to enhance each
other.  The work is easier because of the company; the social connections
are strengthened by the joint activity.
> ...

· Excellent, Peter.  I grew up in that sort of society; I remember bottling
sessions in a hot and steamy kitchen, and the satisfaction of everyone
afterward, looking at those rows and rows of jams and preserves on the
shelves; people looking at each other pleased and happy.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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