You two presume that humans do this stuff, because they like it. Because it feels good to do. Wrong. 80% of people - would quit their jobs tomorrow if they could. See that Prisone Exchange story. But they are caught. They have to produce cruise ships - else they have no access to the simple stuff they need.
Look around. How many people just can't wait to get to their job, then when they come home they sing, and paint and tell stories of their deeds. Humans used to to that. What we have here is denial of life - and people molded to accept it. Transformed.
See here, at page 24,
"Tunes & Dancers" :
Daniel Quinn - My Ishmael
And:
Against History, Against Leviathan!
Quote:
The managers of Gulag's islands tell us that the swimmers, crawlers, walkers and fliers spent their lives working in order to eat.
These managers are broadcasting their news too soon. The varied beings haven't all been exterminated yet. You, reader, have only to mingle with them, or just watch them from a distance, to see that their waking lives are filled with dances, games and feasts. Even the hunt, the stalking and feigning and leaping, is not what we call Work, but what we call Fun. The only beings who work are the inmates of Gulag's islands, the zeks.
The zek's ancestors did less work than a corporation owner. They didn't know what work was. They lived in a condition J.J. Rousseau called "the state of nature." Rousseau's term should be brought back into common use. It grates on the nerves of those who, in R. Vaneigem's words, carry cadavers in their mouths. It makes the armor visible. Say "the state of nature" and you'll see the cadavers peer out.
Insist that "freedom" and "the state of nature" are synonyms, and the cadavers will try to bite you. The tame, the domesticated, try to monopolize the word freedom; they'd like to apply it to their own condition. They apply the word "wild" to the free. But it is another public secret that the tame, the domesticated, occasionally become wild but are never free so long as they remain in their pens.
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One day there will be so many houses, that people will be bored and will go live in tents. "Why are you living in tents ? Are there not enough houses ?" "Yes there are, but we play this Economy game"