Sedulous, Save Thyself!
From the Unwitting Ignorance that will Inevitably Produce a Totalitarian Work State
The totalitarian work state is the clear historical consequence of our faulty understanding of the concept of leisure, argues Josef Pieper in his little book, Only the Lover Sings.
Perhaps, this statement comes across as rather alarmist to our modernist sensibilities since we live in a period of history where few still work everyday for mere survival, a…
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