Thursday, August 27, 2009

Why did you go to work? Because I had to

I'm tired. Tired of work. Tired of being depressed. Especially being depressed from work. When I get home from work, I have to struggle to stay awake. If I fall asleep too early, I will wake up in the middle of the night and be up all night. It is thoroughly depressing how much sway my job has on my life. It is depressing working five days a week, and only living for two.


I've come to view work as the most oppressive and mentally distressing element of class society
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Work is totally and completely unavoidable, unless you're lucky enough to have been born to rich parents. Work is the foundation of our world, and this is indicative of how horrible and fucked up things are. Our daily and weekly lives are built entirely around work, rather than around our families, or our friends. The things that keep us going, or make us happy are set to the side. How many parents truly know who their kids are? If this depressing reality sets in, you are loaded up on chemicals, and told to go back to work. Every person on antidepressants knows there is something wrong with their lives. But are we given the space to look at what's wrong? Of course not. Depression is not a disease; it is a symptom.

We will always, as long as the bourgeoisie exist, have our labor stolen from us in the name of their profit. We will always, as long as work exists, have our lives stolen from us.

5 comments:

  1. Word. The first time I worked a 40-hour-a-week job was a fucking smack in the face welcome to reality. Hella different from working on the ranch.

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  2. I agree about 40 hrs...too much time spent at work. And, then there's always the choice to go live in the jungle and find your own food and water and source of being. Unfortunately, in most any society, you're going to have to work in trade for something whether it's working to find your food and water and shelter, or working in exchange for something (like money) that buys your food and water and shelter. Bartering is cool, but limited.

    And, welcome to Reality. The long and short of it is you don't have to be miserable in creating a living. You can find something that holds meaning to you and others. Something which sparks and ignites your world. It IS possible, and it's awaiting for you to find it. I can guarantee you it won't be hard labor. It may be a combination of using your brains and your braun.

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  3. "And, then there's always the choice to go live in the jungle and find your own food and water and source of being." -

    How is this a "choice" to anyone at all? If that choice were real at all, why do people continue to come into the US to find work and not instead flee into the jungles? Also, if capitalism is alienating, exploitative, and benefits a certain class within society, why is your first instinct to defend it and not push for it's destruction?

    "Unfortunately, in most any society, you're going to have to work in trade for something whether it's working to find your food and water and shelter, or working in exchange for something (like money) that buys your food and water and shelter." -

    Actually, wage labor is a pretty new construct. Just like the nation state.

    "Bartering is cool, but limited." -

    Who said anything about barter? How about human labor going to needs and desires, instead of creating commodities to be exchanged in any market setting?

    "And, welcome to Reality." -

    Yes, this is the reality. That needs to be destroyed. That's the point.

    "The long and short of it is you don't have to be miserable in creating a living. You can find something that holds meaning to you and others." -

    Oh, totally right. I guess all the migrant workers slaving in the fields didn't get the memo and that's why they're not graphic designers or video game testers.

    "Something which sparks and ignites your world. It IS possible, and it's awaiting for you to find it. I can guarantee you it won't be hard labor. It may be a combination of using your brains and your braun." -

    You're missing a huge point that while the style of work may change, its substance does not. Work,as in alienated waged labor, is still that, whether you are doing porn or digging ditches.

    Good post. What font is on the top? Email it to me. This reminds me of when I was delivering cabinets in the summer.

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  4. Work to live, don't live to work. It's hard to adjust to, I'd been working full time (usually more than 40 hours a week) for 6 years or so until I decided I'd had enough. I haven't worked full time for 8 months now, I get by, but mainly because I live in a hovel and do very little with my life anymore.
    If you are the true individual I believe you are I doubt you will be in the full time work force for long, you just need the money to escape your current lifestyle right?

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  5. Man boy fuck you. Two posts in as many days, and you already got 4 people commenting on your shit, and you ain't even got a plug on vengeance yet.

    Good shit though.

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