Nas2EndWork "Pamela's Blogs":

Blog 1: "You Know How I Know You're a Slave?": Blog 2: "Where the Hell is Vasquez When We Really Need Her?"

Blog 3: "How Do I Con Thee? Let Me Count the Ways...Or: What Is 'Individual Freedom'?": Blog 4: "Is It Never Too Late to Be the Parent I Should Have Been?"

Blog 5: "Are We Innocent When We Dream?": Blog 6: "To Enlarge the Realm of the Possible"

Blog 7: "Bury the Corpse!": Blog 8: "Just Say NO! Make Coke the First Corpse to Go!"

Blog 9: "Compassion Always Comes Too Late"

Blog 10: "To Live and Die a Slave?": Blog 11: "Crime Is The Flip Side"

Blog 12: "Rocket Science Ain't Rocket Science": Blog 13: "The Fuck-It Factor"

Blog 14: "How Do You Organize (Our World) Without Hierarchy?": Blog 15: "Eating What The Earth Gives Me"

Blog 16: "When You Become A Voice Of The Voiceless": Blog 17: "You Got To Sucker The Corn Or the Ears Won't Be Worth Nothin'"

Blog 18: "Packaging Our Children For The Podrunks": Blog 19: "The Good Livers"

Blog 20: "Is There Such A Thing As "Voicelessness"?": Blog 21: "Brandon Terrell Jones"
: Blog 22: "Our Real Work"

Blog 23: "Gennenice Chapman Johnson": Blog 24: "What Is Your 'Theory of Change'?"

Blog 25: "The Plum Tree": Blog 26: "Wholism Is A Health Issue"

Blog 27: "Who's Loving You Michael?": Blog 28: "Getting Busy"
Blog 29: "Depopulation": Blog 30: "Growing A Mass Movement"
Blog 31: "Ridley's Choice": Blog 32: "Children Of The Technology"
Blog 33: "The Devastated Earthscapes From Lawrence Summers' "Logic"": Blog 34: "How Do We Grow A Mass Movement?"
Blog 35: "We Have To Make A Loud Noise": Blog 36: "The Phoenix"
Blog 37: "Wind-Blown Seeds Need Roots": Blog 38: "Embracing The Plural"
Blog 39: "Round And Round And Round We Go But Not Merrily": Blog 40: "Unplugging"
Blog 41: "Thank You Sandy From Petaluma": Blog 42: "You Got City Hands Mr. Hooper"
Blog 43: "Letter to Michael Reynolds": Blog 44: "The Last Civil Rights Movement"
Blog 45: "The 4 R's: The Ruses Used To Rend Us...Race, Religion, Reason, and Recognition - 1": Blog 46: "The 4 Ruses - 2"
Blog 47: "The 4 Ruses - 3": Blog 48: "The Responsibility Of The Intellectual"
Blog 49: "The Hidden Malevolence: AKA Michael Moore's Dilemma": Blog 50: "Wading Into The Muck Of State"
Blog 51: "Seeing The Communal Alternative": Blog 52: "Becoming The Function"

Pamela's Blog 11

Published on Friday, May 15, 2009 by Nas2EndWork.org

“Crime Is The Flip Side”

by Pamela Satterwhite

If we offer our children nothing to define themselves by except the market, they will try to excel in the market (formal and informal, surface or underground).

We all work for this system.

We do.

The podrunks set it up that way.

Although it appears that there’s the honorable getting wages while the outlaws commit outrages – “workers” bossed, “redundant” tossed – some plumping the spreadsheets, others pounding the dead streets. In reality, all of us do the same work: Division Work. We are all busy as bees reproducing our agony.

No one can be whole in a sea of division. Eventually massive misery brings us all down.

As we glare at each other across the breach, our eyes never see the cause of our grief.

Turn around.

Someone’s pulling our strings – and they are very organized.

It’s time to notice. It’s time to wake up.

But when wage work – and its flip side, street crime – daily boosts our conditioned reinforced isolation, by injecting us with fear and alienation, what good does our self-awareness do? (“The Two Winds,” Part 9)

It’s very hard to wake up while you work, whether the “work” you do is for the “formal economy” or the “informal economy.” Viewed from a perch high enough above, it’s all the same work.

It’s certainly all the same to the podrunk aim to stay ahead of the game.

If we want a NEW game, unrigged, free of cons, free of bosses, free of unmet need – a NEW world that allows us to make each day fresh, anew, with our own hands united with our own minds, in good fellowship with all our relations, all together now, finally…

How bad do you want it?

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