Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...North Will Rise Again, is right. Maybe the entropy law does determine our fate contrary to our "Newtonian," or progress-oriented inclinations. In essence, the entropy law states that all energy flows inexorably from the orderly to the disorderly and from the usable to the unusable. Thus, when we expend energy under the guise of progress, we are in fact accelerating destructiveness. Presumably, Rifkin awoke early one morning and saw that this second law of thermodynamics could be applied to absolutely everything, and proceeded--with the assistance of disciple Ted Howard--to enshrine his thoughts in a reasonably priced hardcover...
...expressionism, Pop, minimalism-which cannot be assimilated properly because of the scarcity of information: one copy of a Western art magazine affects painters more, in this samizdat atmosphere, than do five museum shows in Manhattan. But the surprise is that such art exists at all. The dissident artist must expend so much energy on survival that he has less left for self-development. There is still no room for him in a society whose art has one purpose: to reinforce the narcissism of state power, under the guise of education. And the bitter moral dignity of his predicament cannot...
...average worker, facing a possible loss of income and the need to expend large amounts of time and effort gathering evidence, the benefits of exercising theoretically guaranteed rights are miniscule compared with the potential costs of potential dismissal. Such a system cannot help but diminish the number of persons seeking to engage in activities protected by the NLRA. It will also discourage workers fired for participating in these activities from filing charges with the NLRB and following them through...