robert
poet of the fallen moon 🍉coming to realise that laziness is not really a thing. it's just that capitalism makes us believe that any time spent on rest or one's self-interest is not productive and thus a waste.
anyway, i hope you all have a slow friday & a restful weekend.
ラーフル・セトラキアン@wordswithnima makes sense but I end up resting for weeks and then realise, the month is already over.
@rahulsetrakian maybe that's what your body and mind need, although i understand that it can be difficult when there are responsibilities to prioritise
@wordswithnima exactly *final year exam*
cultdev@rahulsetrakian @wordswithnima that’s good lol
Julie Mewes
@jume yess. rest is resistance
cuan_knaggs@jume @wordswithnima and while we're at it: Pyotr Kropotkin "Somebody has said that dust is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities. In reading the biography of great men, we are struck with the number of "idlers" among them. They were lazy so long as they had not found the right path; afterwards they became laborious to excess."
Andrew Helwer@wordswithnima I go back and forth on this. I do think wanting to do work that your peers or community finds useful is a base human need, and this idea is the motor powering most hypothetical utopian non-capitalist human societies. And it is sometimes possible to carve out a space where it's possible to do this type of work within our current society. So if one has all the tools, abilities, and space for this type of work but never gets around to doing it, this might constitute laziness.
laurocerasus 
@wordswithnima Yep. I highly recommend this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laziness_Does_Not_Exist
@laurocerasus thanks! I'll check it out
Aurani Casts Fireball@wordswithnima can't rest, capitalism will eat me.
Kevin Karhan 
@wordswithnima thanks even if those are busy as ever...
ShadowInTheVoid@wordswithnima look at how people lived historically, "lazyness" was the default for when people wasn't working. Winter was months of lazyness at a time only broken up by cooking food. Doing stuff all the time was a waste or energy that people couldn't afford
ObsolescentSapien@wordswithnima Productivity is complete bullshit. A scam perpetrated by those with power to keep those without it busy and harmless. Pomo timers and micro-dosers, only to raise stock prices. So fucking lame, but mostly so fucking harmful to ourselves and to our planet. Put your feet up a bit all you Type-A assholes, before you kill us all.
Maj 🇨🇦@wordswithnima I have started wishing friends and family "Have a boring week!" Because I would like one.
levampyre@wordswithnima I recommend to read "The Right to Be Lazy" by Paul Lafargue.
@wordswithnima most “lazy” people are chronically ill or have something physically wrong with their body that they (and especially society) either don’t understand or simply underestimate
Jez 🍞🌹
@wordswithnima I came across this idea from Devon Price's article, "Laziness Does Not Exist" (https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01, sadly now behind a login wall). They now have a book out with the same title which I found pretty good. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL30080357M/Laziness_Does_Not_Exist
Ax=b@wordswithnima also, highly recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304124-laziness-does-not-exist
Word of Mouth @wordswithnima I know I'm expected to feel guilty, I just don't care. I know I'm supposed to think of it as a character flaw, but I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks.
Why would I? They've never cared what I thought?
Why would I? They've never cared what I thought?
Stephen B@wordswithnima Liberating, isn't it? Like realizing that having a job is really about selling your time to someone who needs help or that "quiet quitting" is just doing the job you're paid for.
Thinking of yourself as lazy or unproductive is just internalized capitalism convincing you to sell all your time. It's taken me forever to be ok with pursuing a hobby without any thought of making money off of it too.
Stefan Monnier@wordswithnima Isn't "progress" driven by lazyness
jenifer daniels ♎ :verified:
Michael@wordswithnima I think it IS a thing. I know a lot of lazy, overpaid CEOs who didn't get where they are from actual hard work.