Idleness Allows You To Turn A Situation

Beauty Feeds Us. Anarchy Is Beauty. We Are Against The Grey People. We Want To Decorate, Like Those Fantastic Indian Lorries Which Are Covered With Flowers. Beauty Must Conquer The Lust For Order; Order Is Ugliness.

If You Look At The Literature Of The 19th Century, You Get Things Like Kafka And Dostoevsky, Who Basically Write About Feeling Bored And Alienated. That's Because We Lost Contact With The Important Things In Life Like Work That You Enjoy, Or The Garden, Nature, Your Family And Friends.

To Me There Is No More Depressing Sight Than A Five-year-old Staring At A Screen, Unsmiling, Mouse In Hand. Besides Whatever Dreadful Things This Prolonged Exposure To Screens Is Doing To Their Brains, Computer Games Tend To Be Solitary Affairs, And Produce Little Laughter.

The Way To Stop Feeling Guilty Is To Read Stuff - I'm Not Saying My Book, But Works By Bertrand Russell Or Oscar Wilde, People Who Weren't Losers But Who Didn't Believe In The Work Ethic, And Argued This Thing About Guilt Or Wrote Philosophy About Idleness.

Although I Played A Lot Of Computer Games In My 20s, Now I Have Children Of My Own I Hate Them With A Passion.