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As The Son Of A Feminist Mother, I Grew Up With The Idea That Work Was A Sort Of Salvation For Women As It Would Give Them Freedom From The Domestic Grind. Now It Seems Work Is A Form Of Slavery, Undertaken Out Of Apparent Compulsion Rather Than Choice.

The Idea Of A Government Is To Create An Ordered, Willing Work Force Where There's No Trouble. I Think Idlers Are Generally Seen As Potentially Dangerous Because They're Asking Questions.

Sensible People Advise Against Drinking On An Empty Stomach, But To My Mind It Is The Best Sort Of Drinking.

If Adam And Eve Were Not Hunter-gatherers, Then They Were Certainly Gatherers. But, Then, Consumer Desire, Or Self-embitterment, Or The 'itch,' As Schopenhauer Called It, Appeared In The Shape Of The Serpent. This Capitalistic Monster Awakens In Adam And Eve The Possibility That Things Could Be Better. Instantly, They Are Cast Out Of The Garden And Condemned To A Life Of Toil, Drudgery, And Pain. Wants Supplanted Needs, And Things Have Been Going Downhill Ever Since.

Although I Played A Lot Of Computer Games In My 20s, Now I Have Children Of My Own I Hate Them With A Passion.