Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:38:28 +0200
From: Syphon Soul <haengen-AT-c2i.net>
Subject: Re: work, # 1 enemy of strength


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)!!!

   To counter this, or to add to it, I quote Henrik Ibsens Gengangere "
Livsgleden og arbeidsgleden er i grunn samme ting" (And now in English: "The Joy
of Life and the Joy of Work is in essence the same thing")

  I am bent to agree... seeing as Ibsen meant work in a not so industrious sense
as an Englishman would...




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