I was wrestling with ‘everybody’s working for the weekend’ as the title of the post, but in the end I decided Vampire Weekend was hipper than Loverboy. Yes, I’ve basically turned to quotes and song lyrics as the titles for my articles .

So. If I wait for a holiday, could it stop my fear? Because that’s what they tell us. Sure you work 5-7 days a week until you’re too tired to do much else but watch tv, or, if you’re really ambitious, get drunk and party. As long as you aren’t thinking critically and openly challenging the system, well, your life is just as it should be.  Maybe not perfect, but hey, you get two weeks paid vacation, right? Can’t be all bad. We’re only asking for 96% of the weeks of the year, 71-85% of the days of the week, and 65% of your waking hours each day. And that’s not even counting all those paid holiday’s days you get. Almost one every month! What the FUCK are you complaining about, people?

We give you two weeks to travel, unwind, relax. Forget the stresses of the work day, the ones that eat at your soul and crumble your desire to do anything truly productive. It’s not our fault that by the time your vacation rolls around you’re too tired to be creative or inventive or even think. Maybe you aren’t drinking enough caffeine or eating enough addictive, high-calorie meals from McDonalds and Burger King.

Maybe the problem is you. Maybe you’re just lazy. It’s not the system that makes you that way, you were born lazy and you should be grateful we allow you to work for money, or you wouldn’t be motivated to do anything and society would collapse. We don’t dampen the intrinsic creative and inventive drive of the human spirit, human beings are lazy. The fact that 50% of people in the United States volunteer their time for free to various charities doesn’t mean anything. If we weren’t here to hold out the carrot you people would never walk.

Control over the people is responsible for all progress.

So take your break, your vacation, your weekend and enjoy it. If it doesn’t quite seem to be enough, well, that’s obviously a problem with you. Maybe you should go see a shrink, because you might be maladjusted to the human labour market.