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Reminds me of George Orwell: >I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are suc
by daliwali 10y ago
Reminds me of George Orwell:
>I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.
The desire to keep people employed is driven by fear, as its known that idle hands are the Devil's workshop.
- lkrubner 10y agoThat's rather obvious when you consider that no one has ever been afraid of rich people having leisure.
- daliwali 10y agoIt has much less to do with money than you think. There are people who would be very dangerous if they had leisure time, rich or poor, for we're all the mob.
- jeffdavis 10y agoDo you think the fear is irrational?
- M_Grey 10y agoYes, because time and again we see that we're all the mob, and someone always has leisure, and money, and power, and it always ends badly. Ignoring that and pretending that the current order (whatever current happens to be) is somehow "ordained" or "natural" or "necessary" is a sop to the ego that's as old as the written word at least.
- mistermann 10y agoAll examples of someone with power having leisure time ends badly?
- M_Grey 10y agoI can see how what I wrote can be read that way, but I meant more that human history and the history of humans in power is not a positive history.
- mistermann 10y agoOk I see. Completely agree on your idea of a state of affairs being "normal"/optimal/best/whatever....getting everyone to agree on that principle would be a good start.