File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9712, message 11


Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:46:19 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: TUNA -- Trendy Usage of Nonsensical Additions


At 1:27 PM -0500 12/1/97, Eric Yost wrote:
>Stirling has written that "People are lazy because it makes them unhappy to
>not be lazy. Or at least
>they think they would be unhappy if they were not lazy."
>
>Unfortunate humanity!  On the other hand, perhaps power, rather than
>happiness, drives the lazy?
>("Sitting quietly and doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by
>itself." -Lao Tse)  There is probably a largely unexamined power grab in
>doing nothing.
>
>Or maybe Adler's got it all wrong and it is sex that motivates laziness?
>You know, conserve energy while others are busy expending it?
>
>Regards to all,
>Eric Yost
>

No that doesn't work - lazy people spend a great deal of energy on it. Just
look at the internet.

Stirling Newberry
business: openmarket.com
personal: allegro-AT-thecia.net
War and Romance: http://www.thecia.net/users/allegro/public_html




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