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Gawd, been at this for so many years...I'm an old 'un "In Praise of Idleness"

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 16, 2025, 12:07 am

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."

Re: Gawd, been at this for so many years...I'm an old 'un "In Praise of Idleness"

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 16, 2025, 2:13 am, in reply to "Gawd, been at this for so many years...I'm an old 'un "In Praise of Idleness" "

"Quick! Hide it from the servants!"

"Don't worry dear...they don't have time to read, and never had time to learn how to..."

-Oh Russel was right. Worse, when the Protestant work ethic tied the virtue of indiscriminate labour to the notion of being a spiritual "elect": the whole fraud then became sanctioned by God & inescapable.

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