American Bob | NYC & Paris | 2006 (10 images)

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If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. Then of course it will follow that a decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized. That means trying to overcome the elements of repression...
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American Bob's Blog:
http://www.americanbob.blogspot.com/

If it is correct, as I believe it is, that a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. Then of course it will follow that a decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized. That means trying to overcome the elements of repression and oppression and destruction and coercion that exist in an existing society, ours for example, as a historical residue.

Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations incorporating economic as well as social institutions would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism and it seems to me that it is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into position of tools, of cogs in a machine. In which the creative urge that I think is intrinsic to human nature will in fact be able to realize itself in whatever way it will I don't know all the ways in which it will.

- Noam Chomsky, (Human Nature: Justice vs. Power)
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