All Poets Are Idlers, Even

One Aspect Of Fast London Life I Have Never Understood, For Example, Is The Custom Of The Gym. Why Do People Go To Gyms?

If You Look At The Literature Of The 19th Century, You Get Things Like Kafka And Dostoevsky, Who Basically Write About Feeling Bored And Alienated. That's Because We Lost Contact With The Important Things In Life Like Work That You Enjoy, Or The Garden, Nature, Your Family And Friends.

If Adam And Eve Were Not Hunter-gatherers, Then They Were Certainly Gatherers. But, Then, Consumer Desire, Or Self-embitterment, Or The 'itch,' As Schopenhauer Called It, Appeared In The Shape Of The Serpent. This Capitalistic Monster Awakens In Adam And Eve The Possibility That Things Could Be Better. Instantly, They Are Cast Out Of The Garden And Condemned To A Life Of Toil, Drudgery, And Pain. Wants Supplanted Needs, And Things Have Been Going Downhill Ever Since.

In Both Word And Deed, One Of The Greatest Idlers Of All Time Was John Lennon. In His Songs We See Repeated Defences Of Simply Lying Around Doing Nothing.

Being Lazy Does Not Mean That You Do Not Create. In Fact, Lying Around Doing Nothing Is An Important, Nay Crucial, Part Of The Creative Process. It Is Meaningless Bustle That Actually Gets In The Way Of Productivity. All We Are Really Saying Is, Give Peace A Chance.