Primer 15 — Aphorisms Against Work · Len Bracken
About the Author
Len Bracken is the author of several novels and five nonfiction books.
Source Material
Illustrations from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi by Charles McIlvaine, 1902.
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Instead of the penitentiary of the salary, we want guaranteed social incomes, in addition and unrelated to, the number of hours we work.
Kick the work habit.
Death to Malthus, religion and the dogma of work.
Laziness is the religion of the 21st Century.
Worship the oracle of laziness.
Every prison is built with work.
Inhibit, as best you can, the vice of work.
Workers and consumers are the miserable servants of machines and their endless demands.
Because of the dogma of workerism, unemployment is a problem rather than the boon to humanity that it should be.
The tragedy is that those who do work, work so much they are no longer human.
Those who don’t work are reduced to a miserable existence amidst the spectacle of plenty.
Going to work is like hurling yourself into an abyss.
