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Mashup : the existentialist challenge that we are free to make life meaningful through our work . 1.
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Mashup: the existentialist challenge that we are free to make life meaningful through our work
1. I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself--not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
2. But he was always uncomfortable sitting around for days waiting for a feast or getting over it. He would be very much happier working on his farm.
4. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
5. I chose and my world was shaken -- So what? The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not.
6. Some people say a man is made out of mud. A poor man's made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood, skin and bones... A mind that's weak and a back that's strong. You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
8. What if the world is some kind of --show!... What if we are all only talent assembled by the Great Talent Scout Up Above! The Great Show of Life! Starring Everybody! Suppose entertainment is the Purpose of Life!
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10. Under the capitalist system, the worker labors for someone else. His labor is thus something external to him--or something that does not belong to him. The worker becomes alien to his work--but at the same time also alien to himself. He loses touch with his own reality. Marx says, with a Hegelian expression, that the worker becomes alienated.
12. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Why can't I say that?
14. That was precisely Sartre's point. Nevertheless we are free individuals, and this freedom condemns us to make choices throughout our lives. There are no eternal values or norms we can adhere to, which makes our choices even more significant. Because we are totally responsible for everything we do. Sartre emphasized that man must never disclaim the responsibility for his actions. Nor can we avoid the responsibility of making our own choices on the grounds that we must go to work, or we must live up to certain middle-class expectations regarding how we should live. Those who thus slip into the anonymous masses will never be other than members of the impersonal flock, having fled from themselves into self-deception. On the other hand our freedom obliges us to make something of ourselves, to live authentically or truly.
16. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed.Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance for the first time in their lives — potentially for years to come.
Homework/Process • Finish reading the novel this weekend. • Break into 6 groups with no more than 6 members per group. • Arrive at a topic/idea to investigate. • Each person curates 10 elements independently (No Sharing!)
