• work
    Work

    How to Get Out of Work

    A blog post can only deal with this topic about work on a surface level. An exhaustive study of this subject would surely take many volumes and I have a great many reasons why attempting one is not possible for me at this moment. However, I can rat out the lazier of our brethren by pointing out their diverse strategies for dropping the ball at a moment’s notice. My credentials for this weighty task include the raising of six + children, working as an English professor for over two decades and having been a teenager for the usual eight years. Also, I am married. I am performing this public service…

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    Laziness,  Original Sin

    Laziness Three Ways and How to Move Forward

    First up. Could laziness be the original sin? A lot of theories surround what exactly constitutes original sin. Those in the literary fields usually attribute the original sin to the discovery of sexuality, pointing to the serpent as a phallic symbol, but then, those in literary fields usually think everything is Freudian. More ancient commentary on original sin tends towards the idea of concupiscence. That word means lust or desire, encompassing the literary idea and adding a generalized greed for power, knowledge,  wealth, or whatever. However, as I amble along Scott Peck’s classic, The Road Less Travelled, I recently came across this notion of laziness as the original sin. He…