Wednesday, 24 April 2013

The Right to be Lazy

Paul Lafargue in The Right to be Lazy argued that laziness, combined with human creativity, was an important source of human progress.
He was a Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist, which sounds quite busy.

Robert Louis Stevenson in An Apology for Idlers wrote, 'There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. (…) It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill. When they do not require to go to the office, when they are not hungry and have no mind to drink, the whole breathing world is a blank to them.


I need time to think about it. 
Oh, I don't have any...

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