> the Indignity of
> labor, The Right to Laziness, must be the slogans of the struggle for
> freedom.
Amen.
My daughter recently brought home one of those supposedly "thought-provoking" essay assignments from school. IIRC it was something like "what is the defining characteristic of civilization?"
Turned out everybody else cited things like literacy and mutual kindness and counterpoint, but my own immediate unreflective split-second response was "leisure."
She didn't take the suggestion. She's a smart kid and a good student and knew in her bones that that was gonna be the very wrongest of Wrong Answers.
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