{"id":268766,"date":"2020-08-26T05:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=268766"},"modified":"2020-08-26T07:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:06:02","slug":"why-do-people-think-that-human-nature-is-to-be-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/why-do-people-think-that-human-nature-is-to-be-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Think that Human Nature is to be Lazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Towards a critique of the false narrative that human nature is to be &#8216;lazy&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/why-is-laziness-seen-as-a-vice\/\">Why is laziness seen as a vice?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the worst mis-understandings about human nature is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A lot of these &#8216;smart&#8217; people say: &#8220;Of course it is human nature to be lazy, slothful, and to exert as little effort as possible&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is patently false. Whoever says this &#8230; I wonder if this line of thinking comes from quasi-religious notions of English-Puritan-Protestant thinking that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>To be lazy and slothful is evil and a vice. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And it seems from a religious perspective a lot of people *NEED* or *WANT* a reason to factify or confirm this truth that all humans are (naturally) lazy. And then people then perhaps feel this Benjamin-Franklin-esque air of self-congratulatory moral-virtuosity that says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am productive, not lazy and therefore a virtuous good person, and I will probably go to heaven.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/why-is-laziness-seen-as-a-vice\/\">More thoughts ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards a critique of the false narrative that human nature is to be &#8216;lazy&#8217;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/EK064171-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268766"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268843,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268766\/revisions\/268843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}