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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.

Bob Black

Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials.
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Coercers Credentials Quibble Receiving
The place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy’s ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody’s productive activity.
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Activity Economic Forced Giving Landing Order Police Question
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.
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Adult Business Employs Ordinary Rather
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy – anarchism minus Marxism – will be free to get better at being what it is.
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Anarchy Better Get Minus
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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Jobs Mean Observes Order Smugly
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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Another Change Freedom Master State Subjection
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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Creeping Education Significant Work
I’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?
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Landing Law Sides Want
Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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Application Coercion Law Sea Use
A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.
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Slave Typical Work
The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps
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Inspiration Maps Mean
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
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Misery Source World
Most of what little there is consists of Randite rantings against parasites, barely distinguishable from the invective inflicted on dissidents by the Soviet press.
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Consist Dissidents Distinguishable Parasite Press Randie Soviet
Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it’s forced.
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might Otherwise Play Voluntary
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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Constituent People Stupid Thinking
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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Corporations Libertarian World

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