Friday, 15 May 2009

Just a thought.



A man is not a machine. He shouldn't be expected to work like one. He shouldn't be expected to perform like one. He should, however, be expected to be more reliable than one.
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 May 2009 at 10:19

    Should is one of my most hated words...expectation, usually without hope...or is that just the cynic in me?
    K

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  2. Charon17 May 2009 at 13:01

    I can see how that is often the case. :P I guess that's kinda my point. Although we shouldn't really be expected to work and perform like machines, we really are. ¬¬

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  3. Anonymous18 May 2009 at 20:47

    I hear you guys. Don't get me started on this matter.... Charon, You know my POV. In my humble oppinion this is all based on too much competition these days... So we all forced to be better than our competitors. ...It is a Rat race with just a few winners. Am i sounding too obvious and too boring again? If so i'll stop immediately.

    C.

    P.S: by definition a machine is artificially made.. So if we were designed by some higher being we could say we are -highly sophisticated- biological machines. But also very fragile in this regard. People very often tend to neglect this.

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  4. Charon18 May 2009 at 23:08

    Your last point is nitpicking. :P You are fully aware of what context I meant it in. >_<
    But you're first point, I agree entirely. It's always 'more work in less time'. This leads to poor performance, shoddy goods, mistakes, demotivation and just generally cheapens humanity imo. Someone always pays and it's usually the little guy.
    Back in Manchester at the shop I worked off, it got to the point where they piled so much work into mondays that the boss would regularly have to stay 2 or 3 extra hours to get it done. Takes the piss.

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  5. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 03:56

    Yeah maybe i didn't made my last statement clear enough. I tried to say that we are sensitive and fragile beings not developed by nature to function perfectly in economic environments as our globalised world offers. We are no Robots that do not fatigue or can be repaired easily.

    Sorry i didn't want sound nitpickish or trying to correct you. Just my mind wandering off again ;)

    I totally agree with you. The sad thing is at least 89% (rough guess) of the people i spoke with about such topics were stating similar oppinions, but it seems we are caught in our social economic systems too deep without an escape. >:C

    ...About time for another Revolution!

    Ches.
    (is fed up of this fucked up Taylorism thingie)

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  6. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 04:03

    Oh BTW: Something completely different... losely tight in the topic "shoddy goods" ;)

    If you ever suffer under failing computer equipment again and wanna have sweet Revenge here some funny link under the category

    "Burn IT!"

    Enjoy :)

    It is a german site so don't get confused - the interesting part is the top ten on the left side. KABOOM! ;)

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  7. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 04:04

    damn me silly! Forgot the link:

    http://www.zehn.de/die10/endgueltigsten/methoden/missliebige-hardware-loszuwerden/mainboard-zerbruzzelt/85792/10

    *rolleyes*

    C.

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  8. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 04:09

    (my favorite one is the exploding Mac G4 ^^ and the "geblitztdingst CD" )

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  9. Charon19 May 2009 at 12:55

    Lol. The thing with computer parts is that they tend to contain things like mercury. Burning them is risky business tbh. :P I suppose it's slightly ironic that I'm listening to "Still Alive" from Portal right now. >_<

    Actually... our bodies are capable of working pretty hard without fatigue and recover from the effects reasonably easy. The problem comes with the obvious long term injuries sustained from repetitive labour and the pain we tend to feel. For instance, if you go walk for 20 miles you're gonna suffer for it in the morning, despite the fact that you could easily walk further in terms of capability of your legs. Many people think sleep is your body's way of regenerating but that's not true. Sleep is for the mind, not the body. And that's where the difference is. You can work a horse hard and the animal still preforms pretty well. But we are much more sophisticated. Evolution itself has adapted us to rely more heavily on our brains and less on our bodies, as evidenced by our bipedal nature, hardly ideal for carrying heavy weights. We have also evolved towards longer lifespans to utilise that brainpower more effectively, as evidenced by the unusual layout of the female vagina/anus, the increased risk of childbirth that comes from being bipedal which ensures our species reproduces slower than the majority of quadrupeds. We make huge leaps in the field of science and yet people fear those leaps. Nuclear power is still largely distrusted and even if we got to the point of creating robot servants... (If you are familiar with Honda's efforts to this end than you can see we're not as far off as most people think), but even if we did create robotic beasts of burden to aid us, distrust would ensure that us humans are left to work ourselves into the ground as always.

    Sigh. Lengthy ramble. ¬¬

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