[p2p-research] does this correspond to your experience of contemporary youth?

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks for the comments already.

A few remarks on my own. While greed is undoubtedly hardwired, along with
altruism and many other emotions, it's our social design that directs it to
accumulation of material goods, there is nothing hardwired about that, since
for most of human history, it was notably absent

As for generations, while I'm sure there are people with the
charactereristics she describes, as there were in the sixties, there are
many others that are different.

My feeling is this generation, at least in the West, has a much higher
propensity for sharing and cooperation that the previous ones, and that the
kind of hyper-careerism is, if anything, diminishing in force.

Michel

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:29 AM, mp <m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> On 01/03/10 01:04, Ryan Lanham wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Ted Smith <teddks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> As a contemporary youth, my impression of this article is that it's the
> >> sort of "the sky is falling" crap that has plagued humanity since the
> >> dawn of post-simianity. The fact that the author refers to a child as an
> >> 'it' in the last paragraph is an interesting slip.
>
> The entire piece is a slip: it begins with the question "What kind of
> career?", which is a leading question, infused with the very measure of
> capital that the author claims to question. Why did she not ask: "What
> kind of person would you like to become, what kind of virtues would you
> like to cultivate, any people you'd like to help, social relations you'd
> like to establish, indeed, what commons are you going to join?" ??
>
> The answer is of course that she is on the very same track herself, at
> best quantitatively different, but qualitatively the same: careering,
> competing and perpetuating those very modes of being by asking the way
> that she does.
>
> - martin
>
> PS: I just joined the list, having re-emerged to social and virtual life
> after completing a PhD titled "Property, Commoning and the Politics of
> Free Software", so: Hello all!
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