The alienated character of contemporary man is somewhat one-sided; there are a number of positive factors which we have not considered. There is in the first place still a humanistic tradition alive, which has not been destroyed by the in-human process of alienation. However, beyond that, there are signs that people are increasingly dissatisfied and disappointed with their way of life and trying to regain some of their lost selfhood and productivity. Millions of people listen to good music in concern halls or over the radio, an ever-increasing number of people paint, do gardening, build their own boats or houses, indulge in any number of “do it yourself” activities. Adult education is spreading, and even in business the awareness is growing that an executive should have reason and not only intelligence. One of the most important principles one learns in this way is that real school work must proceed by three lines simultaneously. One line of work, or two lines of work, cannot be called real “school work.” What are these three lines? What are these three lines? In the past lecture I said that these lectures are not a school. Now I will be able to explain why they are not a school. Once at a lecture a question was asked: “Do people who study this system work only for themselves or do they work for other people?” Now I will also answer this question. The first line is study of oneself and study of the system, or the “language.” Working on this line, one certainly works for oneself. #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

The second line is work with other people in the school, and working with them, one work not only with them but for the school. In order to work for the school, one must first understand the work of the school, understand its aims and needs. And this requires time unless one is really well prepared, because some people can begin with the third line, or in any case find it very easily. These lectures give the possibility of only one line of work; that is, study of the system and self-study. It is true that even by learning together people study the beginning of the second line of work, at least they learn to bear one another, and if their thought is broad enough and their perception quick enough they can even grasp something about the second and third lines of work. Still one cannot expect much just from lectures. In the second line of work, in complete school organization, people must not only talk together, but work together, and this work can be very different but must always, in one or another way, be useful to the school. So it means that working in the first line, people study the second line, and working in the second line, they study the third line. Later you will learn why three lines are necessary and why only three lines of work can proceed successfully and towards a definite aim. Even now you can understand the chief reason of the necessity of three lines of work if you realize that man is asleep, and whatever work he starts, he soon loses interest in it and continues mechanically. Three lines of work are necessary, first of all, because one line awakes a man who falls asleep over another line. If one really works on three lines, one can never fall asleep completely; in any case one cannot sleep as happily as before; one will always awake and realize one’s work has stopped. #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

There are some very characteristic differences between these three lines of work. In the first line, one work chiefly on the study of the system or self-study and on self-observation, and one must manifest in one’s work a certain amount of initiative in relation to oneself. In the second line of work in connection with certain organized work and one must only do what one is told. No initiative is required or admitted in the second line and the chief point in this is discipline and following exactly what one is told, without brining in any of one’s own ideas even if they appear better than those that have been given. In the third line again one can manifest more initiative, but one must always verify oneself and not let oneself make decisions against rules and principles, or against what one has been told. I said before that the work begins with the study of the language. It will be very useful if you try to count these new words of this new language, and it will also be very useful if you try to count these new words and write the down together. Only they must be written down without any comments; that is, without interpretation—comments and interpretations or explanations must be in your understanding. You cannot put them on paper. If this were possible, the study of psychological teachings would be very simple. It would be sufficient to publish a sort of dictionary or glossary and people would know all that it is necessary to know. However, fortunately or unfortunately, this is impossible and men have to learn and work each for himself. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

We must again return to centers and find why we cannot develop more quickly without the necessity for long school work. We know that when we learn something, we accumulate new material in our memory. However, what is our memory? In order to understand this, we must learn to regard each as a separate and independent machine, consisting of a sensitive matter similar to the mass of phonographic rolls. All that happens to us, all that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel, all that we learn is registered on these rolls. It means that all external and internal events leave certain “impressions” on the rolls. “Impressions” is a very good word because it actually is an impression or an imprint. An impression can be deep, or it can be very slight, or it can be simply a glancing impression that disappears very quickly and leaves no trace after it. However, whether deep or slight they are impressions. And these impressions on rolls are all that we have, all our possessions. Everything that we know, everything that we have learned, everything that we have experienced is all there on our rolls. Exactly in the same way all our thought processes, calculations, speculations, consist only of comparing the inscriptions on rolls, reading them again and again, trying to understand them by putting them together, and so on. We can think of nothing new, nothing that is not on our rolls. We can neither say nor do anything that does not correspond to some inscription on the rolls. We cannot invent a new thought in the same way as we cannot invent a new animal, because all our ideas of animals are created by our observation of existing animals. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

Inscriptions or impressions on rolls are connected by associations. Associations connect impressions either received simultaneously or in some way similar to one another. In my first lecture I said that memory depends on consciousness and that we actually remember only the moment when we had flashes of consciousness. It is quite clear that different simultaneous impressions connected together will remain longer in memory than unconnected impressions. In the flash of self-consciousness, or even near it, all impressions of the moment are connected and remain connected in the memory. The same refers to impression connected y their inner similarity. If one is more conscious in the moment of receiving impressions, one connects more definitely the new impressions with similar old impressions and they remain connected in memory. On the other hand if one receives impressions in a state of identification, one simply does not notice them, and their traces disappear before they can be appreciated or associated. In the state of identification one does not see and one does not hear. One is wholly in one’s grievance, or in one’s desire, or in one’s imagination. One cannot separate oneself from things or feelings or memories, and one is shut off from all the World around. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

Letting go, letting go of old ideas and sometimes a healthy reality everyone must face. People look at the mantra on the Statue of Liberty and still think it rings true, but it does not. I am not even really sure it represents America, as it was a gift from France. America has changed and is no longer a population building country, and as we welcome all of our citizens, it is good to understand that America is now about capitalism. It is summed up great in 1 Thessalonians 4.11-12, “And make to it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.” Furthermore, so many people flee to America because it has a constitution, human rights, and law and order, but as America keeps welcoming people in, it is becoming more and more corrupt, and some even say worse than the countries others are fleeing from. All social life, even in its most primitive form, requires a certain amount of social co-operation, and even discipline, and that certainly in the more complex form of industrial production, a person has to fulfill certain necessary and specialized functions. In a society where no person has power over another, each person fulfills one’s functions on the basis of co-operation and mutuality. No one can command another person, expect insofar as a relationship is based on mutual co-operation, on love, friendship or natural ties. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

Actually we find this present in many situations in our society today: the normal co-operation of husband and wife in their family is to a large extent not any more determined by the power of the husband to command his wife, as it existed in older forms of patriarchal society, but on the principle of co-operation and mutuality. The same holds true for the relationship of friends, inasmuch as they perform certain services for each other and co-operate with each other. In these relationships no one would dare to think of commanding the other person; the only reason for expecting one’s help lies in the mutual feeling of love, friendship or simply human solidarity. The help of another person is secured by my active effort, as a human being, to elicit one’s love, friendship and sympathy. In the relationship of the employer to the employee, this is not the case. The employer has bought the services of the worker, and however humans one’s treatment may be, one still commands one, not on a basis of mutuality, but on the basis of having bought one’s working time for so many hours a day. The use of man by man is expressive of the system of values underlying the capitalistic system. Capitol, the dead past, employs labour—living vitality and power of the present. There are, however, limits to how far even a flex-firm can go toward diversity. The spread of the “profit center”—which has seen many once-monolithic companies broken into semiautonomous, independently accounted units, each responsible for its own operations and its own profit and loss—can be seen as only a first step toward the eventual dissolution of the company altogether, atomized into network or consortium of completely independent contractors or free entrepreneurs. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

In this model, every worker is a free lance, freely contracting with other free lancers, to get specific jobs done. However, no social process continues forever, and the day of the total individualization of work, the ultimate dream of the theologically committed free-marketeer, is far distant. Instead, we can expect profit centers to become smaller—and more diverse—without disappearing into millions of one-person firms. There is, after all, only as much diversity that any organization can tolerate and any managerial term manage. The argument here, therefore, is not that companies should maximize the variety of their organizational formats, but that today’s companies, in their flight from the rigor mortis of bureaucracy, need to explore far more diverse options than ever before. They need, in short, to liberate their “colonies” and even to invent new formats. In doing so, they—and we—move away from the idea that an organization is like a machine, each of its actions predictable and determinists, toward a conception of organization that is closer to the biological. Living systems are only partly deterministic, only sometimes predictable. This is why the new electronic networks are increasingly tending toward neural rather than preplanned architectures. It is why you cannot tell in advance how the traffic will operate. If you break a link between two places, provided that the network is still connected to those two points, it will find its own way. We believe in the value of communication between any two individuals based on what they know rather than what their place is in the hierarchy. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

Just as hyper-media, the new form of data base, permits knowledge to be arranged in extremely varied ways, the concept of the flex-firms points toward companies that can adapt in myriad ways to the twisty, quirky high-change competition that lies ahead. The emerging flex-firm of the future, however, cannot function without basic changes in the power relationships of employees and their bosses. These changes are well on their way. From power shifting on the shop floor as well as in the executive suit. Capitalism is about give and take. And the American government must honor the Constitution of the United States of America. Someone cannot just come to your door and demand that you give them goods and/or service just because that is what they want. If you want the newspaper, you have to pay for it. If you want electricity, you have to pay for it. Nothing is free and no one is obligated to give you anything. Amendment IV of the United States Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effect, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” You do not have a right to enter anyone’s home and kidnap them or go through their personal affects and steal just because you want to. Amendment VIII of the United States Constitution states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, not excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.” That means the government or anyone acting as a representative of the government has no right to do anything that will cause great bodily harm, injury, or death to a person just because they feel like it. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

The government also does not have the right to hunt and terrorize their own citizens. In the capitalistic hierarchy of values, capital stands higher than labour, amassed things higher than the manifestations of life. Capital employs labour, and not labour capital. The person who owns capital commands the person who “only” owns his life, human skill, vitality and creative productivity. “Things” are higher than man. The conflict between capital and labour is much more than the conflict between two classes, more than their fight for a greater share of the social product. It is the conflict between two principles of value: that between the World of thing, and their amassment, and the World of life and productivity. Because of the dynamics of authority in the United States of America, President Lincoln, because of pressure from the abolitionist and their antislavery pressure, issues the Emancipation Proclamation. This provided that all people who were enslaved in the United States of America in states still in active rebellion against the United States of America would be freed automatically on January 1, 1863. The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the three Civil War Amendments. It banned all forms of “slavery [and] involuntary servitude.” Civil Rights Act of 1875, designed to grant equal access to public accommodations such as theaters, restaurants, and transportation. The act also prohibited the exclusion of African Americans from jury duty. (Although many do to apricate this exclusion.)  So not only are all American citizens free and afforded constitutional rights, the also have been given by the Supreme Court protection to rights not enumerated specifically in the Constitution or Bills of Rights. Although the Constitution is silent about the right to privacy, the Bill of Rights contains many indications that the Framers expected that some areas of life were “off limits” to governmental regulation. The right to freedom of religion guaranteed in the First Amendment implies the right to exercise private, personal beliefs. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

As we have already discussed, the guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures contained in the Fourth Amendment similarly implies that persons are to be secure in their homes and should not fear that police will show up at their doorsteps without cause. As early as 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis hailed privacy as “the right to be left alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” Furthermore, you may file a health information privacy and security complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) if you feel a covered entity or business associate violated your (or someone else’s) health information privacy rights or committed another violation of the Privacy, Security or Breach Notification Rules. The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ medical records and other individuality identifiable health information (collectively defined as “protected health information”) and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health care information and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without an individual’s authorization. The Rule also gives individuals rights over their protected health information, including rights to examine and obtain a copy of their health records, to direct a covered entity to transmit to a third party an electronic copy of their protected health information in an electronic health record, and to request corrections. The Privacy Rule is located at 45 CFR Part 160 and Subparts A and E of Part 1644. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

While on legal aspects of this lecture, there are a few more points I would like to cover. Whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains, or attempts so to obtain, from or out of any mail, post office, or station thereof, letter box, mail receptacle, or any mail route or other authorized depository for mail matter, or from a letter or mail carrier, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or abstracts or removes from any such letter, package, bag, or mail, any article or thing contained therein, or secretes, embezzles, or destroys any such letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail any article or thing contained therein; or whoever steals, takes, or abstracts, or by fraud or deception obtains any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein which has been left for collection upon or adjacent to a collection box or other authorized depository of mail matter; or whoever buys, receives, or conceals, or unlawfully has in his possession, any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail, or any article or thing contained therein, which has been so stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted, as herein described, knowing the same to have been stolen, taken, embezzled, or abstracted—shall be find under title 18 U.S. Code S 1708—theft or receipt of stolen mail matter generally, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

Furthermore, email privacy laws govern the privacy of data transmitted through email. Privacy on the Internet and through email is a growing concern, and email privacy laws are part of that. Email privacy is derived from the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and is governed by the “reasonable expectation of privacy” standard. Emails are also governed by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Patriot Act. Although the ECPA originally set up protections weakened in many instances by the Patriot Act. Even where the protection remains under the ECPA, email lose their status as protected communication in 180 days, which means a warrant is no longer necessary and your emails can be accessed by a simple subpoena. This is usually applies more to a person doing government business from a personal computer. Otherwise people have a reasonable expectation of privacy. One cannot just hack into someone’s email and read them because they want to. Most employers have their employees sign a computer and network usage policy, which typically will set forth that your email is to be used only for business purposes and grants the employer the right to monitor email and computer usage. This agreement normally deprives an employee of any reasonable expectation of privacy, and means that your emails are fair game for an employer to search through. Employers, unlike law enforcement, do not have very many obstacles preventing them from searching your emails. You are sending communications from their equipment that could affect their business, which usually provides them with the justification to search through your emails. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

Even without an agreement in place, courts have rarely found that the employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy to his or her email at work for a variety of reasons. For example, one court held that emails used in a business context are simply a part of the office environment, the same as a fax or copy machine, in which you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Another court found that by corresponding with other people at work, work email was inherently work-related, and thus there could be no reasonable expectation of privacy. Employees are supposed to be working, and monitoring email at work is one way to ensure that employees are using work email appropriately. The larger issue for most employers however is liability. Workplace harassment lawsuits are prevalent, and one way to protect a business from being sued is to monitor and prevent any harassment in the first place. Many employers run software that searches for offensive words and highlights problematic emails. The other main concern with liability is that old emails will be used years down the road in a lawsuit. What an employee says can be preserved for years, and unless the company has an established, reasonable practice of purging its emails, those emails can be a gold mine for anyone suing the company. Emails can be especially devastating, because of the informal way that people write and send them, saying things in emails they never would in professional correspondence. Government employees have even less privacy than usual. Under various public records acts and the Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA), the public can gain access to almost anything a government employee writes down. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

Also, due to the nature of their job, courts are typically unwilling to find that government employees had a reasonable right to privacy in the first place. How Kevin Johnson, the former Mayor of Sacramento was able to evade the law is unclear. Unlike your email at work, emailing from home is more likely to grant you a reasonable expectation of privacy. While it may be difficult for law enforcement to legally gain access to your home computer and local copies of your emails, it is substantially less difficult for them to get your ISP to turn over your emails. Authority is not a quality one person “has” in a since that one has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to one. However, there is a fundamental difference between a kind of superiority-inferiority relation which can be called rational authority and one which may be described as inhibiting, or irrational authority. Today a new wave conflict looms on the horizon, and not just in the United States of America. The coming clash will set defenders of our existing education factories against a growing movement committed to replacing them—movement comprising four key elements. Teachers: The existing system typically reduces teaching to mechanical, by-the-book instruction and standardized testing, draining the last creativity out of both teacher and student. Within the schools today are millions of burned-out teachers resigned to serving their time until retirement as passive supporters of this status quo. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

Yet within these same schools are legions of heroic, miserably underpaid teachers who struggle against the system from within. Despite the constraints imposed on them, some manage to do remarkable things for children and burst with ideas that could help propel education out of the industrial age. With little support from outside, they remain a vanguard, as it were, waiting to join the movement for radical—rather than incremental—chance. Parents: Among parents, too, there are unmistakable signs of disaffection with the old coalition. Many support the tiny but growing number of charter schools, magnet schools and other limited experiments within the existing public education system. Others are hiring private tutors or sending their children to after-school programs like the juku in Japan. Tutoring is now becoming so pervasive it is arguably changing the face of American education. Nor is tutoring limited by geography. Teachers in India are tutoring America children in mat over the Internet. Other parents, having entirely given up on the old system, are teaching their children at home—and not just for religious reasons. The Web offers them more than a million listings and descriptions of home-teaching assistants. The more out of sync the failing industrial-age school system becomes with the needs of a knowledge-based economy, the more likely it is that parental protest will assume increasingly muscular forms. Angry and empowered by the Internet, activist parents can be expected to reach far beyond neighbourhood parent-teacher associations and organize themselves into local, national an even global movements to demand completely new educational models, methods, content and institutions. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

Students: Children did not wield enough power in centuries past to matter much in the movement to create mass education. Today they can help bring it much down. They already are waging anarchic war against the system. Their revolt takes two forms, one outside the classroom, the other within it. Kids have always rebelled against schools, but in the past they did not have access to cell phones, computers, Ecstasy, purple magic, adult films and videos, or the Internet. Nor, as they grew up, did they face an economy that needed their brains, rather than their muscles. Today many, if not most, students know in their gut that today’s schools are preparing them for yesterday instead of tomorrow. The first, all-too-familiar form of rebellion consists of dropping out—and stiffing us with the bill. In a striking manifest called Leaving School: Finding Education, two professors of education, Jon Wiles at the University of North Florida and John Lundt at the University of Montana, calculate that 30 percent of students in grades nine through twelve drop out of American schools after costing $50,000 to $75,000 each—even with underpaid teachers. Once out, many join what a century ago was called the lumpen proletariat, or underclass, made up of street people, criminals, drug pushers, the mentally ill or unemployable. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

The other rebellion takes place inside the classroom. Attacking the root assumptions of factory-style schools, Wiles and Lundt question whether education should continue to be compulsory. So, undoubtedly, do many teachers who are forced to serve as jailers faced every day with the equivalent of a riot in the cell block as their pupils fight any semblance of discipline. Teachers cannot defend against the plague of media violence the local news especially loves to feed off of. Techers cannot defend against the worship of celebrities, including sport figures who cheat with drugs, lie to their spouses, get drunk, beat people up and have to be defended against rape charges. Nor can they, or parents, easily defend against pedophiles trawling school campuses, apartments, parks, coffee shops of the Web for unsuspecting kids. Some schools are so racked with violence—against teachers as well as pupils—that their hallways require police patrols. Young people have always educated—and miseducated themselves. Today, however, they do so with the dubious help of the new media. Games and cell phones are hidden behind open textbooks. Text messages fly back and forth even as the teacher drones on. It is as though, while teachers incarcerate kids in classrooms, their ears, eyes and minds escape to rove the cyberuniverse. From a very young age, they are aware that no teacher and no school can make available even the tiniest fraction of data, information, knowledge—and fun—available online. They know that in one universe they are prisoners. In the other, free. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

Business: So long as the schools, continued, generation, to supply companies with a workforce pre-disciplined for factory life, the coalition in support of industrial-age schools remained firm. However, from the mid-twentieth century one, as the new wealth system began to spread, new, different job skills became necessary—skills the broad base of existing schools could not provide. Th gap widened so dramatically that some believe America’s high schools are obsolete because they are not working exactly as designed. However, some of the fault lies on the parents and students. Many of these students have mental and behavioural problems. Ideally, students are supposed to be quiet and polite and focus on the teacher and material like they are possessed and that is all there is in that moment. They are supposed to read the material, raise their hands to ask questions, read out loud, and do their homework. So one cannot blame the school. A lot more kids need to be medicated so they can focus on school material and they must also be taught to take the material seriously. This clarion call for fixing families and the school is significant. Kids need to be taught life is serious and how to follow directions. The purpose of existence is that we human beings, all nations and the whole of humanity, should constantly progress toward perfection. We must search for these conditions and hold fast to these ideals. If we do this, our finite spirit will be in harmony with the infinite. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in the World of light and never to lose it—to remain children of the light. Happy are those who listen to righteous counsel. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

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