Throughout childhood and adolescence, the average citizen of human society is bombarded on all sides by people telling him/her to work hard. The priest says things about idle hands and the devil's work, his teacher extols the value of good grades, the government tells him that hard work makes him a good citizen, and so on and so forth. Regardless of the source, the message is the same, and the intelligent child will quickly learn that the authority figures saying these things are full of shit. As such, an association between work and bullshit will be formed in the mind of the intelligent child.



This association, however tempting, is fatal. For though the social structure created to encourage and exploit work is indeed meaningless and stupid, the work itself is undeniably substantial. In fact, it is substantial by its very definition. This association of work with obedience is deeply ingrained in any hierarchical society, and it is one that I believe even the most radical leftists and anarchists carry throughout their lives.



The phenomenon I mention has implications far beyond the individual experience. Because intelligent/anarchic people disdain both work and the two-facedness of priesthood, they also give up the ability to decide how work is directed. If those who are inclined to rebel are also inclined to loaf, then the only people who will direct the flow of work are the liars, and the only people who will get anything done are the retards who believe in them. I might go so far as to say that the stereotype of the lazy rebel is perpetuated by the rich precisely because a hard-working rebel is the most dangerous kind of individual possible, but I'm getting ahead of myself.



When it's put this way, the status quo might sound hopeless. The picture I have painted is undeniably nihilistic. But it is nihilistic precisely because it is flawed and unstable. Those in charge are too corrupt and disconnected to maintain a large, well-run system, and those who serve them are in their position precisely because they are too stupid to be effective.



We do not need to fight. We do not need to bunker down. We need only to do what we want.