File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0004, message 47


Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:14:30 +0530
From: "Chand B. Rangwani" <indi_orpheus-AT-crosswinds.net>
Subject: Re: work, # 1 enemy of strength


I totally agree. Work is the most sordid condition a man can get himself into.
Work is how a man prostitutes himself. But now we don't even have work anymore
-  we have jobs!


Juan Cruz wrote:

> that's right, as Bob Black, Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, Durkheim and a lot of
> thinkers put it, work, for the sake of mass-production in rational
> industrial societies is what hinders, decreases, erodes man's strength which
> in turn blocks him and erodes man's daily necessary calories and energies in
> order to be an overman, you see we have about 1600-2500 calories a day, and
> if we consume most of those calories on chores, and work, there wouldn't be
> any left for us to overcome ourselves and become overmen, (there is no way
> out of this mess)!!!
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