Correspondent:: "ArWeGod" Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:37:24 GMT
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Uuuuhhh...what's it like?
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ArWeWoozy
Correspondent:: "Rev. Richard Skull" Date: 12 Feb 2005 07:36:32 -0800
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>>Uuuuhhh...what's it like? <<
Work? Whats that?
Correspondent:: "shazbot667" Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:58:12 -0500
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"Rev. Richard Skull" wrote in message
news:1108222592.381633.144440@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> >>Uuuuhhh...what's it like? <<
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> Work? Whats that?
>
I've been work-free for over 2 years now! It's wonderful!
Praise "Bob"!
Correspondent:: Baldin Pramer Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:43:23 -0700
Correspondent:: Cardboard Box Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:59:33 GMT
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Some time between the hours of March 10th and Friday, "Rev. Richard Skull"
committed the following:
>>>Uuuuhhh...what's it like? <<
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> Work? Whats that?
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Work is the foul invention of the Conspiracy; its primary method of keeping
you stressed, unhappy, and prey to the forces of AntiSlack.
The training required to consider Work as NATURAL(!) starts at about five
years old. It's called "school."
You learn to accept being shocked out of sleep at too early an hour.
You learn that mornings are for washing, breakfasting, dressing, packing
bags - preparing oneself for work.
You learn to tolerate the moronic migration known as The Commute.
You learn how to be ready to leave at whatever time gets you into the gates
of the Workplace by the appointed time.
You learn that any delay, even those beyond your control, will result in
you being punished.
You learn to endure the long hours at your assigned place, to obey the
orders given, that failure to achieve the required standards will be
punished, and that overachievement will also be punished by your peers.
You learn to backbite, backstab, hobnob and endure the company of your
fellow humans, glorps, pinks etc.
You learn to conform, since failure to do so will be punished.
You learn that, given half a chance, Work will take over your evenings,
ostensibly the last bastion of freedom.
You learn to go to bed at an excessively early time, in order to awake the
next morning at the appointed time to DO IT ALL AGAIN.
You learn that this is supposed to be how THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WILL BE
LIVED.
You learn that there are various types of Work, usually prefixed with a
word like "home", "house", "school", and so forth, which are not as pure
and holy as "paid".
You learn to make do with quick fixes of False Slack, since you don't have
the time nor energy to pursue True Slack.
Work is the religion of the humans. Watch them sacrifice their dreams,
their time, their happiness, their family ties to the dread vampire god
Work, patron deity of the new ruling race on Earth: the Corporations.
One day the family will become obsolete. There will only be factories where
humans are grown in vats, raised to see themselves as alone, given just
enough maths and literacy skills to read a manual, then shipped off to
whatever company needs another serving of employees. When they begin to
grow old or fail, they will be destroyed. Kind of like 'Brave New World'
without the fun.
If "Bob" would stop fucking around, we could escape this ghastly fate. I
want my Pleasure Dimension, damn it!
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