Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "The Intolerability of Masters (work)" - Show #775 [Sometimes with sound collage radio apprentice, and 2022 layered additions.


Nearly complete list of sources used follows, not in order:]
Set: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: "The Intolerability of Masters (work)"
Mort Garson - "Plantasia" - Mother Earth's Plantasia
Air - "Dark Messages" - Virgin Suicides OST
Noam Chomsky - "Any system that constrains creative impulse is illegitimate" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Noam Chomsky - "Hedgemonic common sense imprisons people" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Noam Chomsky - "Humans strive for freedom, working for master is intolerable assault on human rights, was called wage slavery" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Noam Chomsky - "Subordinate to master under wage labor intolerable, beaten out of people's head for 150 years" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Noam Chomsky - "Much to say about the puppet and the strings, but not the puppeteer, we believe we're free to make decisions" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Noam Chomsky - "Being subjected to a master during most waking hours is intolerable" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Computer Critters - "Computers are Coming Your Way #1" - Computers Are Everywhere PSA
Computer Critters - "Computers are Coming Your Way #2" - Computers Are Everywhere PSA
Mort Garson - "Various" - Mother Earth's Plantasia
R.E.M. - "Harborcoat" - Reckoning (Deluxe Edition) [Looped]
Peter, Paul & Mary - "Blowin' in the Wind (live version)"
Wendy Carlos - "Sinfonia in D major" - Switched-On Bach
Van She - "Kelly" - S/T EP [Looped]
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - "Ghost of a Dog" [Looped]
Ken - "Thinking for yourself"
Chandeen - "At The End of All Days" - Teenage Poetry [Looped]
Meg Ryan - "Miscellaneous poetry clips" - In The Cut movie [Looped]
In the Cut - "Miscellaneous street sounds" - In The Cut movie [Looped]
Richard E. Grant - "Roads represent a fundamental right of man to have access to the good things in life" - How to Get Ahead in Advertising movie
Live stream feedback - "WTJU live stream"
Live stream feedback - "Give the Drummer Radio live stream"
Ween - "The Mollusk" - The Mollusk [Looped]
Weird Al Yankovic - "Hardware Store" - Poodle Hat [Forwards and reversed]
Apprentice - "Hardware Store list" - Live
Mort Garson - "Music To Soothe The Savage Snake Plant" - Mother Earth's Plantasia
Chicago - "Remember the Feeling" - Chicago 17 [Looped]
Lambchop - "About My Lighter" - No, You C'mon [Looped]
Jerry Lewis - "Follow your instinct, if you listen to others then you become what they think, and you're not your own man" - The Dick Cavett Show
Matthew Broderick (actor); Wallace Shawn, Tom Cairns (writers) - "You know me, darling - sometimes, I say things" - Marie and Bruce movie
Katharine Ross, one other (actors), William Goldman (writer) - "I have nothing against the general area - they just seem to be on a different wavelength" - The Stepford Wives movie
Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern - "You're just as much a prisoner as I am. Both sides are becoming identical" - The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben)
Wallace Shawn (actor); Richard Dooling, Steven Schwartz (writers) - "The living make such meaningless distinctions. Products you consumed, politics you debated - they seem very tiny now" - Critical Care movie
Set: Work
Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey (actors); Eleanor Bergstein (writer) - "Why do you let him talk to you that way? Fight the boss man? I need this goddamned job" - Dirty Dancing movie
Noam Chomsky - "Subordinate to master under wage labor intolerable, beaten out of people's head for 150 years" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel
Hal Hartley (writer) - "Why do you work? To escape the emptiness of my own life. What are you afraid of? Not being able to work." - Ambition
Jeff Daniels, Molly Price (actors); Michael Walker (writer) - "I just don't have the time, I have to work all day. Used to be more time, before I had to work. Life comes with expenses, and poetry just doesn't pay" - Chasing Sleep movie
Michael Moore - "Best way to pay off student loan debt is to work for banks instead of the common good" - Capitalism: A Love Story movie
Hal Hartley (writer) - "You work and you work, and you make sacrifices. They don't let you do what it is that you're good at. Now they try to make you feel guilty for trying to work yourself to death" - Ambition
Martin Donovan (actor), Hal Hartley (director) - "My biggest fear is this: That all my hard work has been nothing but building a wall between me and life" - Surviving Desire movie
Lilia Skala, Lindsay Crouse (actors); David Mamet (writer) - "Don't work so hard, do something that gives you satisfaction. You need joy" - House of Games movie
Mark Hamill (actor), George Lucas (writer) - "I can't get involved, I've got work to do. It's not that I like the empire, I hate it, but there's nothing I can do about it right now" - Star Wars movie
Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "One of the great tragedies of civilization is this need to work for a living" - The Cruise movie
Harlan Ellison - "People distanced from literature, they think writers are magicians on a mountaintop. By doing it in public, I show people it's a job of work, like being a plumber" - Dreams With Sharp Teeth
Chris Cooper (actor), John Sayles (writer) - "All I saw was workers killing workers, 2 years in jail kept me from killing some poor stiff that got pushed out on the battlefield by rich people and politicians" - Matewan movie
Graham Chapman, Monty Python - "You don't need to follow me, don't follow anybody, you're all individuals, don't let anyone tell you what to do, you've got to work it out for yourselves" - Life of Brian movie [You're all different! Yes, we are all different! I'm not.]
Noam Chomsky - "Humans strive for freedom, working for master is intolerable assault on human rights, was called wage slavery" - AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel [Humans have always been striving for freedom, and resist constraints on their activities. Now, this can be suppressed.


So, take something in our ordinary experience: Getting a job. Suppose you're out of work, you don't have anything to eat. You look for a job. It's considered a wonderful thing to get a job.


It wasn't always that way. You go back to the origins of the industrial revolution, mid-19th century. Take a look at the working class literature, it was very rich. The idea of having a job was considered a totally intolerable assault on elementary human dignity and human rights. Why should you be subjected to a master? Why should anybody spend most of their waking hours following orders given by a totalitarian ruler? That's what having a job is. It means you're following the orders of a master.


And in the early stages of the industrial revolution, this was regarded as not really different from slavery. In fact, it was called wage slavery. It was different from slavery only in that it was temporary, until you could become a free, independent human being again.]
Donald Sutherland (actor), Jules Feiffer (writer) - "If it works, fine, if it fails, fine - look elsewhere for satisfaction" - Little Murders
End of set
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