knowledge will set you free…1 min read

well, i don’t know. sometimes it’s good to have the knowledge about something, sometimes it’s not. currently, trained in social science, i watch myself as i go through what is known as the spiral of unemployment, as well as just plain going through it and suffering from it. so i notice the stages described in the theory: enthusiasm, reassessment, boredom, guilt, depression, but observing this does not help to stop it from occuring.
in other words: to know what’s going on often does not prevent it from happening.
more and more playstation and videowatching, less and less working on my “projects”, as the spiral goes down…
or: is it just the other way around?
am i using the theory as an excuse to let it happen?
yet: the bubble has burst. the illusion of full-time employment for everybody has been tragically exposed as no longer realistic. there simply is not enough work for everybody. we have to move into a new paradigm concerning employment, but most importantly concerning workethics. people will have to find ways to work on their own, to invent work for themselves, to move into the leisure society. but even more important: people will have to find ways to deal with the emotional rollercoaster ride that goes along being unemployed. stop the guilt. enjoy the freedom. learn the skills.
it is my goal to be selfemployed in the long run.
time to find back the necessary self-discipline…

2 Replies to “knowledge will set you free…1 min read

  1. as the spiral goes down…there is an other word for that: self-fulfilling prophecy. But I’m sure you know that too.

    How is it called so nicely: patch work biodata – the new paradigm? The other side of life-long-learning…Your reinterpretation: knowledge will set you free…as always there’s no general rule about that.

    Take care!

  2. i agree with you!
    mostly…
    but are you actually saying there are “no general rules” ever???
    you must be a student in the humanities then… ?
    [well in fact in know you are ;-)]
    i mean to imply, “they” been seeping you in post-modern pluralism, preaching you non-struturalism ueber alles, claiming non-hierarchical anything goes-ism, reducing knowldege to “there are no facts ever, just interpretations”… in that babyboomers ghetto which are the humanties?

    i think there are general rules!
    even if that contradicts much of what is being said in the glorious post-modern discourse.
    just as a remark, with the other stuff you say i agree!

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