Laziness is a false and ableist concept
ok this is the most tumblr thing ive ever seen
okay so I’ve thought about this before and actually concluded that laziness is, in the very least, a capitalist concept. it creates a negative aspect of your time not being used “productively”, with productivity obv being defined within work-labor parameters. honestly, I’ve tried to imagine what, in a post-capitalist world, laziness might look like/be defined as and as it stands now, it wouldn’t be the same/wouldn’t exist as a concept at all due to the entirely new relationship of the laborer to the products of their labor etc etc.
I get what op is saying here; “you can’t get up and do work? negatively reflects on you” is a really ableist concept. creating this idea of morality based in ability to produce by capitalist (ie ableist, “able-bodied” being defined as ability to produce/exist under capitalist standards etc) standards is inherently ableist, and ultimately untrue; as a side note, this is an example of how morality is subjective, used to direct the masses under capitalist ideals etc etc those are my thoughts
ok this is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen
that’s another thing I’ve been thinking about, how people say “tumblr thing” as if this website with millions of users has a single, amorphous set of beliefs/interests/forms of analysis when in reality, your view of tumblr is what you put on your dash. so that can range from fandoms, to music stuff, to anarchist praxis, to photography of castles in southern Austria.
and it’s gotta be obvious to ppl who say “this is such a tumblr thing” so I wonder, what’s the purpose of saying it? is it the quickest way to acknowledge/shoot down something without having to utilize any critical thought? to rely on some stereotype created by people who, in often times are anti-social activism and are in the positions of power often required to sit in that position, in order to brush off an analysis instead of considering it?
it’s a really fascinating phenomenon that is replicated in a number of platforms. merely dismiss a statement as being too much of a “thing” and suddenly, there’s no need to actually think about it. you’ve crossed it off as having met certain parameters, ie having any subject matter having to do with things you don’t like, and thereby shown your disdain without ever actually having to present a thought as to why. interesting
seems to me like…
we address the very real systems in place outside of the internet: ‘most tumblr thing i’ve seen’ ie these critiques aren’t ‘irl’
we address things that are on the internet: ‘they’re just trolls’, ie what you critique isn’t ‘irl’
Paul Lafargue wrote ‘The Right to be Lazy’ in 1883, arguing that productivity is ableist and classist and that the practice of laziness is anticapitalist, roughly 130 years before tumblr ever existed.
Which is probably the most tumblr thing that the tumblr user with the tumblr url “fuckinstupidaf” dot tumblr dot com has ever seen
“this is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen” is the most tumblr thing I’ve ever seen…
The Right to Be Lazy – Paul Lafargue (PDF link)
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