Convivial Company

A convivial company is the one that offers the man the possibility to exercise the more creative and most autonomous action, with aid of the tools less controllable by the other. While the increment of the orchestration, past the critical thresholds, produces always more regulated, greater dependence, exploitation and impotence, the respect to the limits will guarantee a free flowering of the autonomy and of the human creativity.

Clearly, I employment the term tool in the sense more extensive possible, like instrument or as middle, independently to be product of the activity organizing of the man or, as is the case of the flint prehistoric, simply appropriated by the hand of the man to carry out a specific task, that is to say, for be position to the service of a purpose.

A broom, a ballpoint pen, a screwdriver, a syringe, a brick, a motor, are tools, to equal title that a car or a television set. A factory of patties or a power station, like goods production companies institutions, they enter also in the category of the tool. Inside the toolkit, one must order also the services production companies institutions, as are the school, the medical institution, the investigation, the mass media or the centers of planning. The laws on the marriage or the school programs conform the social life in the same way that the networks of highways. The category of the tool includes all the instruments reasoned of the human action, the machine and its way of employment, the code and its user, the bread and the circus.

As it is seen, the open field to the concept of tool varies of a culture to another. Depends on the mark that a specific company exercise on its structure and its environment. Every object taken as middle for an end becomes tool.

The tool is inherent in the social relation. In the meantime I act as the man, I serve me of tools. According to that I dominate it or she dominate me, the tool or ties me, or unties me of the society. While I dominate the tool, I give to the world my sense; when the tool dominates me, its structure conforms and reports the representation that have of myself. The convivial tool is the one that the greater latitude leaves me and the major to be able to modify the world in the measure of my intention. The industrial tool denies me that power; more still, by its middle, is another who determines my demand, reduces my margin of control and governs my own sense. The majority of the tools that today they surround me they could not be utilized in a convivial way.