The industrial belief in the conveyor belt impacted nearly
every major aspect of life, from education and health care to agriculture,
industry, business, law, media, family, elder care, groceries, clothing, and on
and on.
Whether the end product
was goods or services, these all became systemized on assembly lines--from
production to delivery and even post-purchase customer service.
At the same time, we widely adopted certain industrial views
which became cultural, such as "Bigger is always better," "It's just business,"
"Perception is reality," and many others.
In truth, all of these are usually more false than true, but they became
the cultural norm in nearly all of modern life.
Perhaps the most pervasive and negative mantra promoted by
modernism is that success in life is built on becoming an employee and its
academic corollary that the purpose of education is to prepare for a job.
Certainly some people want to make a job the focus of their working life, but a
truly free and prosperous society is built on a system where a large number of
the adult population spends its working days producing as owners, entrepreneurs
and social leaders.
A society of producers is more likely to promote freedom
than a society of dependents. Indeed, only a society of producers can maintain
freedom.
Most nations in history have suffered from a class system where the
"haves" enjoyed more rights, opportunities and options than the "have nots."
This has always been a major threat to freedom.
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