Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
BOB BLACKPlay is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
BOB BLACKIt’s apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him.
BOB BLACKI’m the out-of-court jester who won’t settle, I up the vigilante, I’m a law unto myself but break it anyway! I made a forced landing on the Moebius Strip and now I want to know, which side are you on?
BOB BLACKWork is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
BOB BLACKThe reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
BOB BLACKLiberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
BOB BLACKCleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
BOB BLACKSome people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, “one can at least change jobs,” but you can’t avoid having a job.
BOB BLACKYou are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
BOB BLACKThose on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
BOB BLACKA [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
BOB BLACKPeople aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our ‘civic duty’ to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
BOB BLACKYour foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
BOB BLACKYou are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
BOB BLACKMost of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.
BOB BLACKWork is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
BOB BLACK