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January 24, 2007
If only
I don't how I came upon this (probably because I was, indeed, slacking), but the Wikipedia article on "slacker" contains an interesting defense of the slacker mentality:
Proponents of slacker theory assert that managing to survive by doing things at the last possible moment improves intellect as a compensatory way to cope, fashioning a wily yet lazy person. Similarly, a disorganized lifestyle may be superior to an organized one from the pragmatic perspective that a slacker will adapt to disorderliness by improving skills at memorization and at effortlessly rummaging, whereas actively organizing would require serious effort. Hence, the epithet slacker, while often used in the pejorative, is growingly signifying a complimentary, cerebral quality of an unconventional person.
Ha ha ha! Now listen. I can be a slacker. I procrastinate at times. It has to be a very big stretch for me to consider this a virtue. Sure, having little time to do something certainly makes me more motivated to do it, but I much more prefer to have the time to do something properly.
I mean, here's how much of a procrastrinator I am: my friends invented a word to describe how I waste time. Ozzygagging. For example, I was supposed to drive to Cleveland for New Years, but I was late because Rocky IV was on TV. Unfortunately, I don't think this would cause anyone to suggest my "disorganized lifestyle" is "superior to an organized one." Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, however.
entry no. 728
Posted by oz115 at January 24, 2007 04:23 PM