On Work

Why make a virtue of something unnecessary? Why Dignify Drudgery? Why care about that which must be done to survive? Why care about the product? Why do no more than you have to? Why bury oneself? Why seek satisfaction from something inherently unsatisfying? If one is trapped, why move to a bigger trap? Why pretend one is free? Why is motion necessary? Why is stagnation seen as progress? Why bring it home? Why see a beggar's bowl as anything but? Why seek blood from a stone?

The incorrigible may not be firmly fixed, but it can be broken.

Does an error in language make one mistaken about the facts?

"I think, therefore I am," means that one is capable of making the statement. Why is that such a big deal?

Notes

i. Frontiers mold individuality. No matter how we prefer it, there is no one else.
ii. An individualistic culture facilitates individualism by exploiting societal ideals. There is someone else, but we prefer not to see it.
iii. Adaptation is resisted. Rigidity is stagnation.
iv. Social cohesion is undermined by excess.
v. Eventually, even though there are others, there is no one else.
vi. Absent expansion, Things Fall Apart on their own.