15 January

Last day of a great 3 weeks off. Reminded me again that we focus on the wrong things. Sure we went to the moon, we can fly anywhere in the world in comfort, we have all human knowledge at our fingertips via Google, our medicine is good at fixing a lot of things. Life is pretty good. But the best we can manage is giving people a few weeks off work, every year. 4 is generous by world standards, many are lucky to get 2. What’s the point of it all, if so many are stuck in meaningless, bullshit jobs? (I quite like mine, I should say, but I doubt I’m in the majority.) The real ‘technological progress’ we need is political. All of that work, all of that ‘Economy’ nonsense, is supposed to be a means to an end. What are the ‘ends’ of what we’re all doing? Why can’t we say ‘let’s do less work’? Really most of that work is about enriching a tiny handful of people. Not ourselves. We’re their servants. The basics like food and shelter and water were all easily organised with technologies we had hundreds of years ago.