Jobs Suck, Robots Are Alright And Everyone Is An Artist -
The Beginning of AFWFA
The youthful, optimistic vision of Artists For a Work Free America is gaining
wide appeal and controversy throughout the nation, as it places before the American
people a new model of life and industry, basd upon the simple concept of less
work and more play. After AFWFA's first public protest in Seattle, the interest
and questions surrounding the doctrine of a work free future has generated tempered
debates and intellectual curiousity, voicing both complete enthusiasm and strong
opposition. While the lines are being drawn, supporters rush to join AFWFA's fight
and pessimists voice their concerns- one thing is for certain- a national debate
is emerging before our eyes. By no means a new idea in our post-industrial world,
AFWFA has presented a bold and ambitious ideology in an attempt to rekindle the
questions of mankinds place in a modern society. The relationship between humans,
machines and work will force us to re-examine our role as workers and and the
role of technology in society. AFWFA and the issues surounding robotic and work
displacing technologies stand to be a hot, passionate and very controversial topic
for the nineties and beyond.
AFWFA believes that man is ill-suited for work as defined by the twentieth
century, and views the advent of computer and robotic technologies as the means
by which we may be liberated from job repetition, boredom and stress. It is a
long road before we reach our goal as a fully automated society, yet we believe
it to be both a natural evolution and reasonable pursuit. More importantly, it
is our ambition to raise public awareness to the perversities of the modern working
world and offer an alternative modeled after quality of life, not based upon corporate
consumption, mass-media manipulation and voluntary slavery. The technology necessary
to create an automated workplace has already been created. We stand as a catalyst
to activate this technology and encourage technological advancement to create
machines that work for people instead of working with people.
AFWFA stands to remind the American people that we do hold the power to choose,
the aility to change and the capacity to dream. The current state of our technological
evolution demands our attention and our guidance. Just as the horse was displaced
by the combustible engine, so will man by digital and robotic technologies. we
recognize this natural evolution and encourage man to exchange the duties of work
for a future based upon the pursuit of knowledge, beauty and pleasure. Please
join us as we celebrate technology and remind society that at the core, we are
all artists. |
