An author i hadn’t heard about – but then again, there’s a whole parade of authors i’ve never heard about.. This seem to be an author writing on behalf of a socialistic ideologistic conviction, might actually advocate such a world view.. The man was also the son in law of Karl Marx…which might not have worked out well if he was a Capitalist…
Might be worth flipping through, see how this particular man/author are resting on such a statement, about a man’s/woman’s absolute “Right To Be Lazy”… I’m pretty damn lazy myself, so i might identify with this particular ideology which he, i asume, promotes in the book.. I also see some benefiths for the whole of society, from people being lazy, i have to say it’s part of my view on life – like CATS, they are a big inspiration, for me.. Here’s a quote i snatched from Dobbs.town (the Mastodon, fediverse instance) that speaks my kind of language, on the matter of living a better life from being lazy, it’s actually a sweet little quote, don’t know if it’s from THIS book, but…life can be pretty sweet just being apathetic and numb, just LAZY…
“Oh Laziness, take pity on our long destitution!
Oh Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm to heal human sufferings!”
– Paul Lafargue
AND LOOKY HERE– The WHOLE BOOK is available from an open archive:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/
But makes me wonder, in a world where you could get by just living-the-maelstrom in some void, dropped out of the maelstrom in some ignorant state of ‘viva la siesta’, how much less-developed would we get..? What would be crippling the entire mankind – when can i enter the state of relaxation, permanently, why should i wait– me, and everyone, will die – would a life-of-siesta be sabotaging on my own race – but what if i’m a down-right misantrophe and a cynic..? WHAT IF I WANT TO SABOTAGE!?
Sabotage as i live egotistically to solely fulfill my egostic WILL, go ALL-IN, ON ONLY ME, MY REALITY, a reality in which i would like to be cut, THE BIGGEST FUCKING SLICE OF SLACK, i could get, just for making life SWEET – LOVE & LIVE, AND LIVE A REALITY AS THUS OF CROWLEY’S CONCEPT:
- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. · Every man and every woman is a star. · Love is the law, love under will.
- True Will is a term found within the mystical system of Thelema. It is defined[where?] either as a person’s grand destiny in life or as a moment-to-moment path of action that operates in perfect harmony with nature. True Will does not spring from conscious intent, but from the interplay between the deepest self and the entire universe. Thelemites in touch with their True Will are said to have eliminated or bypassed their false desires, conflicts, and habits, and accessed their connection with the divine. Theoretically, at this point, the Thelemite acts in alignment with nature, just as a stream flows downhill, with neither resistance nor “lust of result”.
- Crowley’s ideas on the subject partly originated with the teachings of Eliphas Levi, whose magical books emphasize the magician finding their magical identity – his or her ‘true self’, which Levi referred to as the “True Will”.[citation needed]
- Explication[edit]
- According to Crowley, every individual has a True Will, to be distinguished from the ordinary wants and desires of the ego. The True Will is essentially one’s “calling” or “purpose” in life. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”[1] for Crowley refers not to hedonism, fulfilling everyday desires, but to acting in response to that calling. According to Lon Milo DuQuette, a Thelemite is anyone who bases their actions on striving to discover and accomplish their true will,[2] when a person does their True Will, it is like an orbit, their niche in the universal order, and the universe assists them:[3]
- But the Magician knows that the pure Will of every man and every woman is already in perfect harmony with the divine Will; in fact they are one and the same.[3]
- In The Book of the Law Crowley wrote “Do what thou wilt.”[4] True Will directs the individual towards destiny and forces them into the joy of accomplishing what they were meant to accomplish without “lust of result” (outside motivations).[5] In order for the individual to be able to follow their True Will, the everyday self’s socially-instilled inhibitions may have to be overcome via deconditioning.[6][7]
- Crowley believed that in order to discover the True Will, one had to free the desires of the subconscious mind from the control of the conscious mind, especially the restrictions placed on sexual expression, which he associated with the power of divine creation.[8] He identified the True Will of each individual with the Holy Guardian Angel, a daimon unique to each individual.[9] The spiritual quest to find what you are meant to do and do it is also known in Thelema as the Great Work.[10]
What if i want to spend my life just fading, dying as i fade away, sunken into a book; maybe THIS book, by Lafargue– propagating that IT’S INDEED MY RIGHT..? My right to turn against the grain, fade as living-la-vida-siesta?
It’s such a shame to not have that laid back mind-frame…there’s so much of the mental, matters of social-society and news of stuff, and all those things of the world-not-being-apathetic and shunned away in it’s little nest– that you’ll have no use for
ANOTHER THING, i got a personal anathema of – IS GROWING UP! As they song proclaims: