ARE TIREDYOU OF WORKING?

BY MARIAGRAZIA PIA

The poet G. Leopardi replies that the “true arid” is not easily bearable: only the philosopher succeeds, poetry cloaked in illusion, youth deludes itself, but historically, we are no longer in the “heroic” epochs, in the childhood of humanity, when poetry was truly “creator” of knowledge, of morals, not just an entertainment for a few, but the way of expressing oneself, of living for peoples in “heroic barbarism,” ancient or medieval, as G Vico in the New Science (1744) ... still new today, because it has been studied, but it has not yet become “Practical”.

The etymology, however, not only for the Italian language in reference to the Latin root, contains a truth that we do not want to see: work has nothing to do with the “negotium” (in any case the activity of free people, even not dealing with it) or with otium, (literary and philosophical, artistic and scientific occupation, speculation and contemplation without the need to answer for the use of one’s

Ttime): what occupies these hours of idleness is useless, because in that time we are not servants, slaves of anyone! Just as Philosophy does not “serve”, because it is not “servant” or slave and so we could say all the humanistic and artistic disciplines. We don’t need to be human, we are!

Being so, we should not be the servants of anyone, least of all of our passions or the needs induced by others (by institutions and elements of society, the economy and culture itself, by religions), which have accustomed us to privilege work because allows us not only to survive (we would not need much), but to satisfy a whole series of needs that make status, for a mechanism of production, consumption and exploitation that sees us at the end of our day envy ... the lilies of the fields, which do not weave or spin, birds that sing, or any animal that certainly has not used evolution to be increasingly dissatisfied and needy, indulging the whims of a few, who in one day can spend what we do not even in we will earn a whole life!

So we have the courage to think like poets ... working tired, death, work and childbirth with pain are divine punishments: the words we use have a thousand-year history and two centuries of industrial revolution, trade union struggles, political rhetoric, economic systems cannot erase a truth that one must have the strength to bear. Those who believe it are perhaps lucky!

Leopardi, who mocked his contemporary optimists, while recognizing the need for illusions, nevertheless sought the Infinite, beauty and love and devoted himself to his poetic, philosophical and literary work.

The negotium was a duty and a choice of those who could afford not to deal with business and politics, procrastinating the otium for a common good in which, in some way, he believed.

Labor is an obligation to which the servants, the slaves of every age, are subjected.

At least those who knew they were slaves were trying to become “free”, while our society makes work seem like a goal, not a tool. As if the surgery or treatment became a goal in itself and not the health that we must be saddened by having lost. We are treated and insured to be treated, we pay our taxes… we could be healthy!

We believe that work is our goal, we might not have to work!

Of course it is another thing to have a profession, a passion with which to live, to live with, even with little: birds don’t work when they sing!

The medieval Corporations, apart from the exploitation of the fascist autarchy, which made the expression hateful to us, combined the major and minor arts to crafts,

Tto professionalism that later with industrialization it subtracted: apart from the exploitation of the working class , the salary and the working week are based on the time “sold” to the boss, with initially minimal professionalism, so much so that even women and children could be hired. Entering the industrial age, the “profession” is lost to the advantage of “work”, an alienation of one’s time. We also have the same situation when we leave the Hegelian context of “servant-master” imagined only in the factory: it becomes the model of every “service”, of every job or profession, in which even personal services, the same Instruction has changed the lexicon, borrowing it from the factory and industry: students and families are “users” for teachers and for those who are no longer called “principal (who presides, supervises) or didactic director”, but “Headmaster” and as Director of a company is called to behave, even if it is a public company that cannot go against the directives of the State. In the last twenty years, the defects of communist statism and liberal capitalism have united to the detriment of culture, both of the professionalism of the negotium and of the freedom of the otium, at least in Italy!

People, if they did what each one knows how to do, would not work, they would not suffer: it would be either “negotium” or “otium”, instead it is labor!

Why say that we like to suffer, die, work… let’s say we are forced to! We do not seek redemptions where there are none, we do not think of expressing ourselves, of redeeming ourselves, of improving, where we are only forced to suffer. At least we should have this honesty dignity.

Good negotium or good otium to all or at least we wish it!

Not good job at all!

As if we wish good pain, good death to everyone!

Who would accept such a wish?

BY JANE AUSTEN

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