If there's work in the bed, why not sleep on the floor?

If, like me, you don't believe in adhering to other people's rigid rules and ideas regarding the world of work, then you might find this article interesting. What's the point in breaking your fucking back every day from 9-5 just because you feel you 'have' to, or other people say you should? If you want to, then fair enough, go right ahead.....but if you'd rather relish what little time we have on this planet, experiencing as much pleasure as possible in the process, then don't feel you have to apologise to society because you'd rather drop out and start a New Age Hippie commune in West Cork..........fuck 'em if they can't take a joke - at the end of the day, we're all just food for the worms anyway, but by the time all the 'slaves to the clock' learn that, it will be too late.......................


Today I’d like to talk about some of the notions in our society which are misleading our young people and causing a lot of unnecessary misery. Firstly, the idea that you must earn a living. Within the notion of “having to earn a living” is the assumption that you don’t automatically deserve to be alive. For some reason this tends to make people feel somewhat depressed. I have it on the highest authority, however, that the only way to really earn a living, once and for all, is by being born (and I’m talking here about physical birth, not any religious metaphorical mumbo-jumbo). After that you deserve to relax.


Another misguided concept that I’d like to shoot down is the belief that you should be responsible. This whole idea puts people under tremendous strain, because you end up feeling responsible for all your imperfections. Society holds us accountable if we don’t comply with its definition of our responsibilities. You don’t choose your genetic make-up or the conditions in which you grow up, yet all the unfortunate things that happen are your fault. It’s time we let go of this burden of false responsibility.


What we are really talking about here is that strange phenomenon called masochism. It is my belief that we are a deeply masochistic society. A prominent politician recently said “if it isn’t hurting, it isn’t working”. This statement was calculated to appeal to our need for the type of dogma that insists we must suffer. Any belief which maintains that it’s our duty to endure pain, is guaranteed to be popular.


All of this is against the natural order of things. If God/Buddha/Allah/Evolution/Extraterrestrials (delete as appropriate) wanted us to have a hard time, why did he/they/it give us such an enormous capacity for pleasure – our brains are juicy pleasure organs, not guilt machines. The divine, or whatever, doesn’t talk to us in terms of duty and effort – it whispers peacefully to us of fulfilling our deepest longings and desires.

Taken from;

http://www.anxietyculture.com/sermon.htm