Working for Ourselves

An episode of the Thinking With Somebody Else's Head podcast, hosted by Richard Lloyd Jones, titled "Working for Ourselves" was published on December 19, 2011 and runs 47 minutes.

December 19, 2011 ·47m · Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

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Summary

"Get a job!" was a common insult hurled at the hippies back when I was a kid. I remember a few of them homesteading in the woods off the dirt road to my favorite swimming hole on Vancouver Island. I remember the homegrown vegetable gardens and the hastily assembled log cabins and the pungent odor of their strange cigarettes. I wouldn't pay much attention if I was alone beyond noticing you could barely see their eyes under all that head and facial hair. But if my father was with me ... well, then I'd hear a few lectures on the long, windy drive back home. The values of work, the satisfaction of a job well done, the "I had to walk 5 miles to school - both ways" speech that all parents at that time seemed to pull out of their back pockets at times like these. I appreciated my father's point actually ... especially as I got older. But I sympathized with the rebels, too. But now I'm noticing the same "Get a job!" catchphrase going out from Wall St. to all the OWS occupiers. For sure, work is needed for the liberation of the people. But not the work the 1% is thinking we need. Working for Ourselves, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Click here to listen to this episode.

Episode Description

"Get a job!" was a common insult hurled at the hippies back when I was a kid. I remember a few of them homesteading in the woods off the dirt road to my favorite swimming hole on Vancouver Island. I...

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