Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Thinkers don't work, and workers don#t think....

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in world, the most difficult and the most intellectual" Oscar Wilde

As the great Oscar Wilde stipulates in the above quote, to be idle, to do nothing at all is most difficult and most intellectual. Even when one thinks he or she is capable of doing nothing, they find that when they come to do so, they find themselves doing something. Intellectually speaking, when one has mastered the art of doing nothing, and can call himself an idle man, then so will the person go on to begin his pondering and intellectual thinking. While all the while doing nothing, his mind is over working the very possible answers to the daunting questions of life. With the help of idlers, we as a cosmos, have the answers to the many mysteries that kept us up late at night wondering, worrying about the meaning of life. As an old English proverb says "Thinkers don't work, and workers can't think", this sums up the above view that idlers are useful in their own dystopian "nothingnessful" existense., they aren't merely wasting precious work time, they are using this time doing precious thinking. Work and thought, do not go hand in hand. One has the thought, and the others carry out the work to bring the thought to life. As workers are incapable of such "academic and intellectual brain work" , they clock into the monotonous routine of work, their only thought is that the bad people are the ones who 'slack off'. Without the 'slackers' however, all be it a stereotypical heading to put over idlers, we as humans will be no different than mechanical sentients, controlled by the work ethic which has been impossed on us by the people or 'organisation' (the government is merely an organisation) to control us. Brain in a Vat.

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