The Philosophy of Laziness

So traditionally… Laziness is seen as a sin. Under the ethos of capitalism, to be lazy is to be sinful, to be reprehensible, hateful.

However, also conversely speaking… There are virtues of laziness. But also, it does seem that the general trend nowadays is that everyone is “lazy” in one way or another.

So ways that we could decrypt this:

First, there is a distinction between being lazy versus simply just having no energy and being overtired? If you only sleep two hours a night, and you have no energy to do anything… This is not laziness, this is simply… You have no energy?

Assuming that you were an iPhone battery, and you’re like a critical 10% battery… You cannot suddenly expect yourself to like download and run up bitcoin mining rig on your phone. Or play some sort of graphic intensive game on your phone. No… You gotta just plug yourself in, charge, take a nap, sleep and recover. You can only go 100% when you are 100%.

Charge anxiety

Not as much nowadays… But certainly in the past one of the big downsides of smart phones and iPhones was that the battery would just die so quickly… And you would always be overly anxious when you did not have a charger or a battery pack close by.

The funny thing is that everyone knows that the more stuff you do on your phone, the more your battery is going to drain… In in order to conserve battery life you gotta put yourself into low power mode, turn off all the stuff you’re downloading and streaming and playing, and or… Conserve your battery.

However… We don’t seem to have the same sort of anxiety stress or concern with our own physical and physiological health. We somehow assumed that we are like human beings… Like an iPhone Pro that can just be indefinitely plugged into a wall and charging 24 seven? This is not true… Assuming that human power and physiological power is like a battery pack that only lasts a given day… And the only way that you can recharge your battery is by taking a nap or sleeping well at night, isn’t it always and doesn’t it always make more sense for you to recharge 100% overnight, in order to tackle on tomorrow? Nobody would ever have the foolish idea that overnight they would only recharge 20 or 40% of their battery… Everyone always wants to recharge their battery 100% overnight.