Oh, the Humanities!

I have a dream, too.

I dream that one day,
all work will be created equal,
so that it will no longer
be dreaded, but become
what it was always meant
to be.

I dream that in our
modern age, the
economics of the future
can be realized,
so that they are
driven by reason,
by a sense of accomplishment,
not by a sum total,
by results,
not by demand.

I dream that demand
will become a thing
of the past, that supply,
as it already is,
will become plentiful
and reasonable,
because reason
is the last religion,
the last belief
in which there can be
no doubt, only worship,
not of ourselves
but what we are
capable of.

Because we are capable,
of a great many things.
We just happen to favor
hamstringing ourselves,
for no other reason
than "what's well enough alone,"
the worst philosophy I know,
or reason that thinks
it's novel when it's not,
managed thought that works
like a machine,
the evil terminating kind.

Reason should tell us
these things, and it does,
and we choose not to listen.
"Reason" also tells us
that when we are allowed
to do what we want
and not what we have to,
vital work would not
get done, "because
it's not desirable."
Human nature,
which is Reason,
tells us differently.

The dream lives on,
will become the wave of
the future, will
become the future,
because the present
is the future,
which is the present,
and an extension
of the past.

These things happen.