[matilda] Proposal for workshop(s) No one should ever work. Bob Black

[worldwarfree at riseup.net]

We began then for some reson they come to an end workshops at Matilda well
idd like to propose a workshop on the following text..

No one should ever work. Bob Black

Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost all the
evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world
designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

That doesn't mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a
new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. By
"play" I mean also festivity, creativity, conviviality, commensality, and
maybe even art. There is more to play than child's play, as worthy as that
is. I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely
interdependent exuberance. Play isn't passive. Doubtless we all need a lot
more time for sheer sloth and slack than we ever enjoy now, regardless of
income or occupation, but once recovered from employment-induced
exhaustion nearly all of us [will] want [to] act. Oblomovism and
Stakhanovism are two sides of same debased coin.

The ludic life is totally incompatible with existing reality. So much the
worse for "reality," the gravity hole that sucks the vitality from the
little in life that still distinguishes it from mere survival.
Curiously—maybe not—all the old ideologies are conservative because they
believe in work. Some of them, like Marxism and most brands of anarchism,
believe in work all the more fiercely because they believe in so little
else.

You can read it on line here
http://pretentiousartist.com/work/

Ill print some off for the meeting Monday ill do a pdf sometime today
it will be here
http://pretentiousartist.com/work/workpdf

My thinking is March 1st from 7.30 at Matilda will also do a flyer
and further communcations if there are no objections on list or following
the meeting Monday ill get them done for Tuesday and start geting some
intrest..

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