Individual people rarely have any meaningful power or contol over their lives. What do you think would happen if everyone decided to stop working for a week, as a sign of resistance?
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KineticSpirit
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A sign of resistance of what? I really think individuals have a lot of meaningful control over their lives. I know that I do. You can't control paying taxes so, I guess if that's what you're resisting; not working would achieve that. What would happen if everyone didn't work for a week? Well, there would probably be rioting and looting.
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I guess I must be missing the point here somewhere. First, I entirely disagree with the premise that individuals have no power over their lives. If you choose to subject it to others, that is still a choice, an act of your will. Second, your suggestion is not an individual act but a collective one, so I don't see how it makes any point. I choose to work because I want what comes from it - satisfaction in what I do, benefits, financial security, a collegial atmosphere and ever expanding horizons. Resistence to what? I like what I do for a living.
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I see you want to rally the troops! But I think the premise of the question is flawed in a 2 ways: - There's a broad generalization about other people that smells funny: it has a hint of self-righteousness in it, as in "I have control of my life, but those people don't". This may be true, but the way you've phrased it splits people up into 2 groups, and the reader is left with little room to guess about which group you place yourself in. - The notion that people should or could have control over their lives is based in the notion that the life and the person are two separate things, rather than two aspects of the same thing. When I see "my life" as something separate from me which I should try to "control", I'm already disempowered by this conceptual separation. In reality, no such separation occurs, and the question of control needn't arise at all. It sounds a bit like you're saying "the Man is sticking it to us, and we should stick back!" But where exactly is the border between "the Man" and "us"? The moment we draw that distinction, we relinquish true responsibility for our lives.
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Nothing would get done.
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You'd be classed as 'British'
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