Re[2]: [pf] consumption / brainwashing

Thursday, December 21, 2000, 7:17:33 AM, Priscilla wrote:

pac> I don't think you are just making excuses for everyone. This is an issue 
that
pac> scares me and one that I would like to talk about.  I don't have much lined
pac> up in the way of retirement and I am in my fifties. I have always worked in
pac> fields that are not "rewarded" monetarily nor did I ever have access to a
pac> 401K or its predecessors.  And now I am working part time because that is 
how
pac> my body and mind and spirit work best.  I have to tell you that the 
economic
pac> "insecurity" that I am facing often keeps me awake at night.  And every 
other
pac> week I keep telling myself that I need to get another job.

[snip]

One obvious answer for the care of elderly (and disabled) is stronger
communities with inter-generational ties. Of course, these are all but
non-existent. I don't believe anyone can "go it alone"--I am
psychologically illiterate (being a left-brained economist and math
minor) but I think it's probably psychologically impossible, and
anyway it's impossible for other reasons. One will be denied the
ability to participate in society if one does not have a certain
minimum of "qualifications" -- you must have a mailing address, phone,
(email is almost essential anymore), transportation, wardrobe,
hairstyle--to get a job. It might be possible to put a self-sufficient
community together somehow, but I think there are few individuals who
can be self-sufficient. And there are many obstacles to community.
Some of these (IMO) are now built-in features of society, power
structure if you will.

Well, I've said enough for now.

Kelley
OKC

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