Friday, May 2, 2008

You are all a bunch of fucking slaves! Mindless drones!


“Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.” —Oscar Wilde
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"But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in the old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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I think I would give my left nut to be able to travel around working counterculture festivals like my Tribefriend KK has done, what could be more rewarding? It is truly amazing to me that even among Burners, there are people who remain so fiercely loyal to jobs they don't even like, jobs that are slowly sucking the life out of them and keeping them chained down, keeping them from living their dreams. Hell, just keeping them from living period. Work to live, don't live to work! There's nothing wrong with doing an honest days work for an honest days pay, everyone wants to put food on the table, but unless you are one of the very fortunate ones making a living doing what you love, YOU ARE NOT YOUR JOB. How you pay the bills is NOT what defines you.
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Shame on you all for shitting on a man just because he has the courage to follow his heart! Goddamn brainwashed, consumer-driven zombies! Call me an "enabler" if you will, tell me to "find a real job" and to "get a life." Fuck you, I say. Quit your job and go find your real life! I am doing what I love (Writing!) and I will continue to do so, whether or not it pays the pays the bills is immaterial to me, it's what I was made to do, and one of the few things I do really well. I've been working hard since I was thirteen years old, I've quit a million shitty jobs and I'll quit a million more!
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I don't know KK personally I'm just one of his many fans and Tribe friends, but it's obvious when reading his writing or what others have written about him that he's no lazy skid row bum looking for a handout. Quite the opposite in fact! I for one would be honored to buy him a few lottery tickets and a lousy pack of smokes, even in spite of the fact that though I've managed to earn a little money, I haven't cashed a paycheck in over five months! I would love to berate you conformist Swine some more, but the sun is shining and the trees are in bloom, and I've a got a date with my sunporch, some good music, and Mary Jane. FUCK YOUR JOB! -LS
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"I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit WE DON'T NEED. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." —Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club, 1999
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"One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours—all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy." —William Faulkner, interview in Writers at Work, 1958
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"Sure I could get up every day at dawn and go to a job that does not inspire me creatively at all. Or, I could get up at noon and learn to play the sitar. " - Bill Hicks
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"I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery to take care of something. I walked in the bathroom and in the middle toilet right there . . . somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment. Cause I was thinkin', 'I'm 30 years old and in about 10 seconds I gotta start cleaning up somebody's shit, man.'" —American Movie, 1999
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"We don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements." —Office Space, 1999
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“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” —Charles Bukowski
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"My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell." —American Beauty, 1999

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