Today I am busy. Not yet - unless you count putting photographs of thistles on my blog as being busy. And busy is what we were always told to be back in Rat Race Training College. Passive-aggressive little adages like; "the devil finds work for idle hands" and "hard work never hurt anyone" were churned out so as to socialise us in the ways of the working world. Even when we climb the educational ladder a little we get Weber's little tome thrust in our face as pedagogues insist that we're only successful as a nation because of that work ethic.
It isn't that I'm against work - although there are times when I'm with Bing on this matter - but that the thing isn't inherently a good thing. Working isn't essentially ethical and not-working essentially unethical. It may be unethical to lay about the place knowing that the efforts of others will provide for you laying about - but even then I'm not sure that applies in the aggregate.
Today I am busy. I shall work 12 hours. But I don't think this is a good thing. Nor does it make me better. It's just today.
It isn't that I'm against work - although there are times when I'm with Bing on this matter - but that the thing isn't inherently a good thing. Working isn't essentially ethical and not-working essentially unethical. It may be unethical to lay about the place knowing that the efforts of others will provide for you laying about - but even then I'm not sure that applies in the aggregate.
Today I am busy. I shall work 12 hours. But I don't think this is a good thing. Nor does it make me better. It's just today.
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1 comment:
Surely, work is only a disutility if you choose it to be so Simon, or choose to see it as such.
http://localenterprise.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/social-enterprise-and-good-work-provoked-by-craig-dearden-phillips/
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