Defense of Sloth

Sloth is a deadly sin?

---"I consider America responsible for the shame of our age: the glorification of work, that stupid ideology which has engendered the idea of material progress and the disdain of every utopia or poetry tending toward the perfection of the human soul... I cannot help opposing those influences... with the most violent lunge forward, the idea, and the most creative of actions, idleness."
-Tristan Tzara


---"And for that poor Ambition - it springs
From a man's little heart's short fever-fit;
For Poesy! - no, - she has not a joy, -
At least for me, - so sweet as drowsy noons,
And evenings steep'd in honied indolence..."
-John Keats, "Ode on Indolence"


---"Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,

Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary,
Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next,
Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.

Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with
linguists and contenders,
I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait."

-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

---"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."

-Charlie McCarthy