It’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 BLACKAlmost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
More Bob Black Quotes
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Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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Just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.
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People 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.
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Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
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Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
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Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
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Some 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.
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To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
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