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| Posted By: legion Posted On: Aug 7, 2004 Views: 301 | good article for Dio On the art of sloth... But not for the rest of you sluggards. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1276787,00.html Work sux |
| Posted By: Kent Posted On: Aug 7, 2004 Views: 297 | RE: good article for Dio Legion, I'd love to know exactly how you define a "sloth" vs. a "sluggard". I want to figure out if I should read the article or not! :-) |
| Posted By: legion Posted On: Aug 7, 2004 Views: 283 | RE: good article for Dio Well, the difference is subtle, but Dio understands. The rest of you guys I'm not so sure about. Here's an interesting post regarding the same thing from some Tyler Durden wannabe on fark.com: We decide we need a Job. Then we decide we need the Big Car to get us to the Job each day, so we work a little harder to afford the Big Car. We need nice clothes in order to be accepted and effective at the job. We work a little harder to afford the big car and the Nice Clothes. As a representation of all the hard work we've done, we eventually want the Big House. We need the Big Job to afford the Big Car, the Nice Clothes, and the Big House, so we strive and toil harder than ever to get the Big Job. The Big Job keeps us away from the Big House for 80 per cent of our wakeful lives, which can be very stressful. We find ourselves yelling at the people we care about for no reason, taking our own misery out on the people who are closest at hand. If we're lucky, we decide that we need a vacation to alleviate the stress. We work a little harder to afford the Big Vacation. This is a form of self-torture, which gives us a glimpse of the perfect life, only to have it taken away after two weeks, and thrust back into the Big Job, which is what is making us so miserable as to require buying a whole new "leisure" wardrobe and embarking on the Big Vacation, away from the Big Car, the Nice Clothes, and the Big House. All the while the bills keep coming, the children grow older and more demanding, and we must keep working harder and harder, growing more and more miserable in the process. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Retirement is coming up soon, and soon we will be able to enjoy all of the fruits of our labor. But retirement comes, and we find that the kids have left home. They don't call very often, because we were working so hard that we hardly ever saw them, and as a result we were never very close. Our spouse has been lonely for years, and was only waiting for the kids to grow up until it was okay to leave. The spouse leaves, and takes half of our beautiful posessions with them. Alone and miserable, with a a stressed-out body and an inability to relax, we soon die in a black cloud of regret over a wasted life. |
| Posted By: legion Posted On: Aug 7, 2004 Views: 282 | RE: good article for Dio Ooops, got cut off- the last line: "It's been done a million times by men who thought they were too smart for such a fate." Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Understand? "An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shiat we don't need." - Tyler Durden (fight club) |
| Posted By: Rough Posted On: Aug 8, 2004 Views: 277 | Excellent read But it's just too late for 99.9% of the poor souls here in the US, I'm afraid. Not that we ever had a chance anyhow. Now, excuse me...I must see to Hagar down below. I see someone let him out of his cell for the weekend and he tried to sneak one in on me, again! The rascal! DIO/ROUGH 2004 |
| Posted By: Dionysus Posted On: Aug 8, 2004 Views: 257 | RE: good article for Dio A charmingly interesting article that Legion, thanks for drawing my attention to it. 'How To Be Idle' by Tom Hodgkinson, amusingly reminds me of something that Nietzche once said, but it seems to have taken Tom a whole book to communicate it, "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book." [Friedrich Nietzsche] "If idleness really is the beginning of all vice, then it is at any rate in the closest proximity to all virtue; the idle man is always a better man than the active. But when I speak of leisure and idleness, you do not think I am alluding to you, do you, you sluggards?" [Friedrich Nietzsche] Having been sacked from my job in January this year for creating a comedy website, (this I now see as an amusing achievement on my part) I am now back in my natural state of idleness, my life is far more richer as a result compared to the slavedom of waged labour I had previously. I do not regard myself as a lazy person, but I take great pride in the fact that I am a very idle person, I see that as a great virtue in my personality. But the trick now is to find a goal... Cheers The Antichrist |
| Posted By: legion Posted On: Aug 9, 2004 Views: 248 | RE: good article for Dio Trick is, finding ways to REMAIN idle in todays highly driven, overachieving culture of worker ants - Performing useless "jobs" just for the sake of having a job. Dio, You should rent/watch a great comedy movie called 'Office Space'. You will love it. "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." -- Oscar Wilde |