[lit-ideas] Teamwork -- no work
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:44:03 EDT
In a message dated 3/11/2009 2:46:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx writes:
I'm writing about ..."
"What do you think about ... ?"
Here's the kicker. IT IS NOT ONLY ALLOWED BUT ENCOURAGED.
Apparently the texting/e-toy generation is so afraid of their own
There is no team in I,
----
Exactly. Note also that the English language lacks the proper expression.
It's called,
'teamwork'
which is a euphemism. For surely if it's team, it's no work. I'm currently
studying the grammatical impossibility of the 'we'. ("We fuck on Fridays").
It's a double euphemism in that it has a good side to it, 'it's team_play_"
All work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.
--- The opposition is between 'work' and 'play'. I claim that if it's
teamwork it's more like team-play. Team-game. Etc.
You'd notice that some things do require a team effect, co-operation, etc.
General constraints of shared activity unified by a common goal.
But that's _not_ the AE case. For the grade will be given _individually_, on
an individual case-by-case basis. And the result of the encouraged
mis-called 'team-work' becomes otiose:
"I will speak about blah-blah-blah, i.e. the stupid idea
by some full-time bureaucrat instructors in public
schools to have us write on _things_. Teamwork
encouraged, the fat lady said. My bollocks. What does
this stupid idiot I have next to me by _law_ knows
about blah blah blah. Shit. Yet, that is not all. I cannot
cannot cannot cannot stand a _noise_. Not just fart-
noise. Any noice. Mosquito-flight noise. Breathing
noise. Heartbeat noise. There is no team in I. I am
the captain, with four full limbs, of my soul, stupid!"
Work is overused by educators in English for lack of a better word. It has
nothing to do with 'arbeiten', in German, or with any Romance notion. It is a
barbarism, God knows where it derives from. It's also insulting in
shelter-students who are asked to bring in a 'home-work', now correctly
re-spelled as
'out-of-class assignment'.
If you think Plato and philosophy, or Socrates and philosophy, team work
would be the mayeutic dialogue. But in what way was that _educational_? I find
Socrates's description of it verging on pornograpy:
"As the midwife opens the vagina of the woman
to allow the birth of a boy; I'll open the brains
of the boys, to allow the birth of, not a vagina,
but an idea".
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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