Work

Across Kyle’s notes, work surfaces as a marker of unconditioned, fully human life. In Brave New World, the concept is tied to “the mowing scene’s ‘skill and patience’ as the one human need the World State cannot decant” — skilled work stands beside wanting and suffering as a sign of a self that hasn’t been engineered away, a theme that connects to Human Nature and Self-Reflection. The implication is that effortful, patient labor is one of the few things the conditioned utopia cannot replace.

In Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith, work appears in a different register — as divine labor and consecrated effort. Hinckley frames the church’s mission in terms of accelerating work: “All the work of the past is but prelude to the work of the future…. There must be much more dedication, devotion, consecration…. This is his work.” Here work is both human exertion (“hard work”) and God’s ongoing project in the world.

Where this appears

• Brave New World — skilled, patient work (the mowing scene) framed as the one human need the World State cannot decant away.
• Gordon B. Hinckley — Go Forward With Faith — work as consecrated, accelerating divine labor; “all the work of the past is but prelude to the work of the future.”