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The Book that Made Napping an Anarchist Act
Sleep on, my friends.
How to be Idle: A loafer’s manifesto, by Tom Hodgkinson, uses historic documents and literature to show how the Industrial Revolution detrimentally changed western work culture and humans.
We all know that the Industrial Revolution brought long and dangerous working conditions, but did you know workers were abused, underpaid, underfed, and brainwashed into believing that their value was tied to working hours?
Before the Industrial Revolution workers were paid per project, not per hour (a shift that deprived them of the idle time that had been so vital and valued); they only did as much work as was necessary; and, often took three-day weekends and long lunches.
Your value rests solely in your being alive and a relatively polite person not on how much money you earn or how many hours you work.
Choose your next adventure:
My essay on dispelling the myth that we must forgo sleep to be successful:
