Richard Sennett: "The Decline of the Skills Society" 

A-Sheep-of-Christ: Among his many books, Richard Sennet is the author of The Culture of Capitalism and The Erosion of Character, texts in which he denounces, not the malignant excrescences of "human nature" that generate injustice, but the extraordinarily negative effects of a way to conjugate or decline capitalism in this stage of late modernity. In his work he speaks of inequity and inequality and throughout his life, his work is ---and continues to be--- a virtuous and very intelligent reflection on life in cities, accompanied by the formulation of specific proposals for turn them into more humane, fair, equitable and habitable environments, in terms of a dignified coexistence. It is worth taking a look at one of his latest proposals on urban planning and life in cities, under what Sennett himself has called Open City. Finally, a couple of points: Regardless of whether Sennett is not a Christian --- which I don't know if he is or not ---, the values ​​he passionately defends are, to a great extent, an expression of the living heritage of Christianity in the West and in the world; that is, they coincide with such values. On the other hand, the history of humanity until the rise of Christianity was the history of the unconscious generation of scapegoats or innocent victims in order to identify the origin of evil, blame them and immolate them, thus driving violence out of the community; violence that ran the risk of destroying it, since human beings are mimetic beings, who act imitatively, which too often leads them to desire the same objects ---living or inanimate---as other human beings. And this convergence of human desires on objects that seem unique, triggers violence in the dispute over their possession. Christ came to the world to reveal, to denounce this potentially fratricidal mechanism and to rescue it from the unconsciousness of men and make it part of their conscience, in order to avoid violence. (The thesis and the ontogenetic and phylogenetic explanation of human behavior and of Christ's vision of it, is the theory of the mechanism of mimetic desire, formulated, formalized and developed by René Girard, one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century and of Christianity ). "You will love your enemies" and "you will pray for those who persecute you." Aren't these commandments literally inhuman because they are seemingly unattainable? And isn't the inhuman what is not properly human? And what is not properly human ---or does not seem to be---, is it not, then, divine? That is precisely what the Gospels ask for. Neither from a radically secularized ethical perspective nor from an ethical-religious and Christian perspective, is it just (Christian) to condemn a man for just one of his acts and for an hour-long exposure. There are many of his books, his work, to know what he thinks. The egomania is elsewhere; certainly not at Sennett.

M Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, is the conceptual-practical bridge between C.S.Pierce and Dr Sennett.

Sounds like he is talking about Heidegger's term of ready-to-hand in 'Being in Time' when talking about skills development.

42:35 My farher would be 110 yrs old if he were alive. He was a very good upholsterer. When he was a teenager he applied for a social security card. On his application he lieted his father as his employer, an Upholsterer. Learning skills were generally in the family and passed down by a good craftsman, the bread winner. Including being a good parent, mother, home economist. Money and school does help in training craftsman, but character is established thru training and applied long before a child grows up and enters the world. Computers, technology, and their video games can't teach character. When US coorporations relinquished the manufacturing industry, they killed the character of the USA. It was the end of an era never to return because Coorporations were moral leaders. Not anymore.

If it is true what a germen psychologist said, that each society raises the society the way they need them, than it the society of dummies they need , unskilled people which can be pushed around the corner at work.

robot robot robot - TATU haha. robot actually means worker in some language or another around russia, the concept of it being a slow dull-witted metallic labourer is tied into the concept of skilled/semi skilled physical labour being considered menial by management also silicon valley's "labourers" are often developers at the same time, engaging in genuine problem solving, because technological work is like that, and programming requires constant problem solving, so silicon valley already knows the apprenticeship program in many ways - and thus don't get hit so much by outsourcing and the wielding of globalization of corporations against the needs of the non-rich factory systems are sometimes a lot like an addict's bodily functions, the more you use the more you need to get the same effect and what you get when you don't have it is more and more run down, and eventually you use enough and you go kaput or someone decides to take advantage of your structural weakness/bodily dysfunction as a long time factory reliant/junkie person

depressive ... but great to hear truthsss

After the man finishes his series of AH then he could eventually say something

Ego-centric maniac. Talks a straight hour about societal realities and productivity but fails to mention that an increase in skill and productivity does not benefit the one executing it to the extent that improvements to any given system would be justifiable. The actual problem is simply that people are seeing reality as is: as long as someone is above you, is regarded as higher than you, gets more pay than you - the world is unfair: and so is human nature.