The point of Marxist reflection is to say that human life comes first in spite of industrial glamour and efficiency. Marx was neither a communist or a Lenninist. He was a Torah adherent who was a very practical economist and the truest friend of capitalism that does not require "haves" and "have nots" any more than or as if forests need fires to exist. You don't hear. Is it "send it" or "bring it" when you don't score any goals with your big heavy back without you paying the goalie $400.00 to get out of the goal? What do you really do but kill Jamaican immigrants with education so that you will feel authority since you think reading Othello in High School is an English assimilation project and then you blackmail them for cash as you tell them that if they don't they will not have a job or any emails. You must think a Black Jamaican just originated from the dust of Sligoville. But, he is an expression of several originating immigrant communities that mixed with Arawak blood over several centuries and one or more of them has to be English, Dutch, French, German, American(black and white), Spanish and Kung Fu. But, you don't want to believe the Kung Fu. Well, even Asians have to study and write musical theory practice exams over and over again to ensure they will finish in time as directed by a Chinese Jamaican piano teacher who is technically black anywhere in the world; including Jamaica; 90%. It's like shooting rats back home in Tatooine; 90%. So, what do you say? Have you seen a J. Wray and Nephew poster? Go to hell or Heaven. Which one do you choose? How will you have any economy or sufficient sales if you don't pay workers a decent wage so that they can consume cheaply made products produced with mechanized labor? Have you been to Muji or Uniqlo? Marx was more of a capitalist for the reality of mechanized labor, hoping to stave off the disaster of American egotistic myopia who forgot the weight of books when building the foundation of most of their libraries. You need consumers to buy bread. This is so even if you do not have workers. The endeavor of industrial efficiency and mechanized labor is a better financial bottom line but there is no line whatsoever without sufficient consumers. Marxist reflections are not negative but positive in celebrating where we are in the reality of the industrial light as designed with human ingenuity. Planned obsolescence is an economic factor to ensure light bulbs and panty hose sell often enough to ensure a company has sufficient income. This confirms the importance of regular consumption and the need for regular consumers who need regular monies in an environment that confirms a normal and regular stability as provided by a normal and regular rule of authority, law or government for all citizens. A computer would be good at this and the shiny, well shaped and affordable "steel cutlery" of our regular experiences in public will confirm the viability of that machine or of that government. The evidence of unevenness in our neighbor's lives and the irregularity of their experience will confirm the machine's or that government's malfunction, its unviability and its need for immediate change. It is producing and unsaleable result. The point of Marxist reflection is to say that human life comes first in spite of industrial glamour. Human life is the raison d'etre of the entire mechanized and industrial enterprise and this could not be forgotten regardless of all of the stylised, social engineering that only strangles those who are caught in any dehumanizing project, "spectre minded" society and web, bringing a sterility to one's life if one does not celebrate the beauty and diversity of humanity. Ignoring this beauty and diversity is not the message of industrialism as if a can opener should lead one to throw away a Baptist hymnal for more easily intoxicating and less satisfying fleshly recitations that stimulate oxytocin only to leave one feeling cold and dissatisfied, shouting "Becks" in public while they stay up all night abusing themselves and then driving to work in tranquilizers, ignoring husband or children. We could try to mechanize community or a hug but only true community centred on the essence of humanity will leave enduring warmth in the reality of mechanized life and provide a hedge against the barbarity of the illiterate in our midst. They are the majority of any graduating class if the curriculum will allow a stratified huddle to leave any publicly funded school building. There should be only one grade available or a guaranteed minimum attainment to satisfy social and economic viability like the Kung Fu dojo. This is grade 11. As needed in further study, the further study involving grade scales (A+, B etc) will ensue in the final year. After that, human evil will continue as men live in the dissatisfaction that humanity affords in the pride of life, the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh. A certain minimum economic hedge against the cold of mechanized life and its ability to render human life redundant is essential in that without such a hedge, we will shed blood not only for the remission of sins but in the sin that says we have very little purpose other than reproduction if we forget the value of community and human life. This will ensure a greater satisfaction for all although it may not mean equity or an inheritance for the masses to reflect in an estate of land. But, it will mean peace for those who will be necessary participants in the mechanized and industrial life if nothing more as savers, workers and consumers. "Planned obsolescence" cannot be applied to human life. Any social engineering that decides what types of human beings should reproduce, live and enjoy God's green earth has chosen a certain nullity that amounts to the end of all human life as we know it. The guarantee of this simple fact is that all human beings and their dna over the millenniums have participated in this culmination of the times and the mechanized, industrialization of life as we know it. Empire Strikes Back, with well engineered industrial sounds and sets, not only tells us where we are but confirms the immutability of the human soul in an industrialized future, it's enduring needs and its condition as we move into a certain future that cannot forget the spirit. It tells us where we are and confirms where we are going. While much will change, much will certainly remain the same.
Warren A. Lyon.
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