What it apparently boils down to, according to “experts”, is “love the machine, hate the factory”. It’s another pseudo anarcho-communist “adbusters” sort of thing, I think. But do away with the factory? Is that even possible? Unless your vision of ideal society is the old Jeffersonian “everyone a yeoman farmer” (and I do know libertarians who believe this is ideal), then what in the world are you getting at? Where does the machine come from? Who can’t be dependent on others?

It’s a nice idea, doing away with these structures and enjoying work, but I don’t know how we do it, especially in the information age when so many of the tools are so much more than sprockets and gears.