Why It's OK to Be a Slacker Suen Alison
Why It's OK to Be a Slacker Suen Alison "Stop slacking off!"Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. You may have even said it to yourself on days you…
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Why It's OK to Be a Slacker Suen Alison
"Stop slacking off!"Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. You may have even said it to yourself on days you did nothing. Or maybe your roommate said it to you when you were lounging on the couch scrolling through Instagram.
Could it be that there's nothing bad about not making yourself useful?Against our hyper-productivity culture, Alison Suen critically interrogates our disapproval of slackers-individuals who do the bare minimum just to get by. But what is so bad about slacking? She offers a taxonomy of slackers, analyzes common objections to slacking, and argues that each of these objections either fails or carries problematic assumptions.
But while this book defends slacking, it does not promote the slacker lifestyle as the key to something better (such as cultural advancement and