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free time is perhaps a reasonable aspiration for wage slaves, but not for others
footnotes: nietzsche, geuss, adorno, postone, kurz, jappe, krisis and other anti-labor marxists
i would hang this up in my office but i fear it would make me cry too frequently
nietzsche the gay science 183-184
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(as in a complete negation - not even instrumentally in service of productivity. but of course this does not rule out expression and creation - we may be our most active in our times of idleness! but who has been lucky enough to experience true idleness in the contemporary world?)