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Am I Truly Philosophically Opposed to Exploitative Capitalism and Materialism or Am I Just Really Lazy

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It's a fair question.

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the word 'lazy' has such a negative connotation in our culture

No lazy person ever perpetrated a genocide. Some re-thinking on the morality of indolence might be in order. Lin Yutang!


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I am pretty sure I have made damn near this exact thread before

Sorry, fans, but this is like the central preoccupation of my existence.


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I'm very proud of being lazy.
I used to be ashamed, and dwelt in denial of it.
But, no more.

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the test is how you behave whenever you get hold of any significant amount of money.

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ps - i am just lazy.

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significant what of money

Whenever I have enough money to not work I do not work because I do not like to work and I like to sit around and drink and appreciate Art and make posts on the internet. I do not know whether this constitutes passing the test or failing the test. I don't like tests either. They are unpleasantly related to work in some way.


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I was too lazy even for a career in academia

I dislike the expectation levied to occasionally publish papers and pretend to care about something. I guess that's pretty lazy.


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The 'amount' key is broken on this keyboard. I had to type it in manually.

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Since I am not aggressively anti-capitalist

I must own up to being lazy. I am probably one of the laziest people ever.


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yeah but i think laziness stems from suffering defeat

When you realize no amount of work will help you achieve more ambitious goals in the socioeconomic system within which you dwell you learn to exert only the bare minimum amount of effort necessary to survive.


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Whenever I have enough money to not work I do not work because I do not like to work and I like to sit around and drink and appreciate Art and make posts on the internet.

Yes, you are lazy.

But happiness is a better aim than productivity anyway. If this lazy behaviour makes you happy, you are bucking the system in the most glorious way and have nothing to fear in life. If you are unhappy, you are simply proving it.

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i will be happy until the money runs out

But the thought of returning to work fills me with dread.


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I am not lazy as much as I am an IDEA MAN.
I got a million of them, i just do not have the mental, spiritual, or physical stamina to see anything through to completion.

Plus I am horribly anti-capitalist.
To the point of it becoming a parody in my life.

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Rob a bank.

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That was for Greg, but it worked out OK.

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I just bought even more guns

I am not sure I am the stuff of which Dillingers are made though. I am not a real American because I have a terminal lack of self-confidence. I have always been preternaturally capable of seeing where a plan can go wrong.


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PRETENTIOUS EXISTENTIAL MACHO wrote:
When you realize no amount of work will help you achieve more ambitious goals in the socioeconomic system within which you dwell you learn to exert only the bare minimum amount of effort necessary to survive.

This is true and tends to bother me. I have a lot of down time to think over my life and plot out where everything went wrong. For me, I can narrow it down to pre-school where I didn't know how to play with kids I didn't know from my neighborhood. Whenever we had unstructured playtime, I would wander about and watch other people do things, feeling outside of the situation. I think I also liked the freedom of not committing to an activity.
I also blame nerds for not supporting me. I was the kid that wasn't the least popular but got a lot of shit. I would be singled out by the bully because I didn't toadie up to him and he saw me as some sort of threat. Then the nerds would shun me because they were afraid I'd bring his wrath in their direction. So I had to stay solo for the most part. Luckily I had a great life outside of school.
So basically I learned to hate school and wait out the time. So I didn't do well. Now I have fucked up to the point where I can't do anything professionally that I'd be inclined and motivated to do because I lack all the requirements that I thought I slyly circumvented all those years. I'm probably not making sense and rambling. So...fart.


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I have always been preternaturally capable of seeing where a plan can go wrong.

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the autobiography of the world's laziest criminal

"I gave a great deal of thought to planning a number of audacious crimes. That's how I came to realize that crime is even more work than work. And I don't like work."


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stoopid johnny you are

stoopid johnny you are making 100% sense to me...i think i'll usually have wage slave jobs because I can't relate to or communicate with professionals...which seems to be made up of nerds and well-adjusted people.

For me I think I was originally destined to be a nerd...but I dumbed myself down so that I wouldn't feel so isolated from the other kids...but that didn't pan out because they had nerd radar anyways...so I never quite fit in there. Then I didn't quite fit in with the nerds because I wasn't a nerd in the same way.

That reminds me my ten year high school reunion is in July and it seems like everyone in my class has turned into scientists and doctors who are going to save the environment and cure cancer...and I'm still sleeping on a mattress on the floor...in my kitchen.


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I think what we can all agree on here

is that the main problem with Life is other people. Ordinary fucking people. Without them it would be easy.


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lazy town.

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Take back the internet

Once upon a time the internet was a bastion of geek expression where they could interact beyond the reach of the stifling squares. Then it became like TV and in shit flooded. So what I'm saying is that it is good that this board is dead because it is like the old internet now.


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