18 Sep 2009
In Praise of Laziness
More inspirational than strategic, I’m sharing this because there was once a conversation in AnonIB where someone shared a bunch of links of people in support of not working — and at first, I pretty much agreed that the sites were poor and hippie-ish.
(There were literally no specific how to’s on the sites on how to achieve the concept.)
Then another anon came in and argued something I can’t quite remember. (I don’t have the link to refer to that particular conversation.)
Basically though, what happened next was that I ended up pointing out how it wasn’t so much an idealistic thing. That these arguments really do have some more validity and substance than the average lazy person over-simplifies it or generic internet posters feeling these were just a un-formed irrational knee-jerk “pie-in-the-sky” kiddie vision of the world.
At most I remember stating that a huge problem was that at the most basic layman level, people on both sides tend to be ignorant of the Luddite and Neo-Luddite movements (as in they don’t even know of the names and beliefs of those groups) and the discussion gets marred because of that.
None of these has to do specifically with the video but seeing this, it did remind me that were some sections of Hikikomoris that literally push towards a non-employment mode of living and they might appreciate this video.
Edit: Btw here’s where I found the link: http://lazyway.blogs.com/lazy_way/2008/09/in-praise-of—1.html
