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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-06-12 under

"Motivation is bullshit. If you ask me this country could use a little less motivation. The people who are motivated are the ones who are causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, Christian conservatives. These people are highly motivated!

"And anyway I think motivation is overrated. If you show me some lazy prick who's laying around all day watching game shows and stroking his penis, I'll show you someone who's not causing any fuckin' trouble."

-- George Carlin

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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 10:06am on 2007-06-12
That's like my theory that instead of nagging people to get lives, we should nag them to get hobbies. People with hobbies tend to be harmless.

What if George Bush and Osama bin Laden had had seriously time-consuming hobbies?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:51pm on 2007-06-12
Of course, the trap in all of this is that those who would most like for folks in general to have no motivation to cause trouble / have distracting hobbies are the people already in charge.

So the real idea, unfortunately a lot less funny than Carlin's version, is that we want those we disagree with (and those we consider meaningless noise) to lack the motivation to cause trouble, and those who share our goals to be able to run things our way by default.

Though I suppose if we had no motivation either, then we couldn't be bothered to worry about whether we'd like things to be any different in the first place, and wouldn't care who was running things unchallenged.
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