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Our Dreams Take Us Into Other Worlds, Alternative Realities That Help Us Make Sense Of Day-to-day Realities.

Surely, Anyway, A Working Day Of Eight Or Nine Hours Which Is Not Split By A Nap Is Simply Too Much For A Human Being To Take, Day In, Day Out, And Particularly So In Hot Weather.

What Is Required As We Travel Towards Full Unemployment Is Not New Legislation But A Gradual Change Of Mental Attitude, A Shift In Values. As Our Taste For Idling Grows, We Will Refuse To Work For Old-fashioned Bosses Who Demand A Five-day, 40-hour, Nine-to-five Type Week, Or Worse.

The Way To Stop Feeling Guilty Is To Read Stuff - I'm Not Saying My Book, But Works By Bertrand Russell Or Oscar Wilde, People Who Weren't Losers But Who Didn't Believe In The Work Ethic, And Argued This Thing About Guilt Or Wrote Philosophy About Idleness.

Facebook Is Not Ideologically Neutral. In Fact, It Emerges From A Very Particular World View Which We Can Trace Back To Hobbes. I Discovered This By Examining The Profile Of Zuckerberg's Fellow Board Members Who, Unlike Him, Are A Very Interesting Bunch And, I Suspect, The Real Power Behind The Poster Boy.