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Last Saturday I did something. Something I have never done before in my
life. I donated to a political party, the
Democratic party (DNC), to be precise.
I deplore that money seems to be so important in elections,
but here we are in the real world. (The real world is seeming quite bizarre and
alarming these days.) In the real world,
money can make a lot of difference in many arenas.
I donated money because I felt it was important to me to
make a concrete statement about who I am firmly backing in the upcoming
elections. I am in favor of Mrs. Clinton
for president, and now I have backed it up with my pocketbook. I donated to the party because I also believe that the congressional elections are very important.
Others have presented the case for Mrs. Clinton far more
eloquently than I can. I simply believe
that a vote for Mrs. Clinton is a vote for decency, stability, compassion,
intelligence, and strength.
If you wish to argue against my choice, please make your
argument on your own blog, not on this one.
Perhaps you are opposed to the DNC. Instead, please consider the DNS – the
Do-Nothing Society. I have this
proposal, written by my father in 2007. I guess I am not eligible for membership. Because I did something.
The Do-Nothing Society
If you desire
freedom from work, this is for you. A group of men, content with languor, have
formed The Do-Nothing Society [DNS]. If
you are satisfied with inactivity of any kind you may be received into its
fellowship. All who sit on the porch
just rocking and thinking are Do-Nothing eligible, more so if you just
rock. Energy conservation is a big thing
now, and we think it our civic duty to cut back on work, all the way back.
The
Do-Nothing-Society is not gender specific, though only males have joined so
far. Apparently the supply of
good-for-nothing women is inadequate to meet the need. The DNS is environmentally friendly, resolved
never to scrub, wash, sweep, dry mop, wet mop, dust, or otherwise alter the
natural order. All who abandon work, foreign or domestic, are welcome. Do Nothing is committed to Equal Unemployment
Opportunity (EUO), and is not sexist in the least. We are interested in anyone who yearns for
worklessness.
We have no
card-carrying members. Actually, none of
us carries anything. In physics, work is mass times the distance through which
it acts. For example, if you have a
fifty-pound sack on your shoulder, no work is performed unless you move. Even Einstein agreed to this tenet of
classical physics. Albert Einstein daily
trudged from his home on Mercer Street across campus to his Princeton
University office. Once, pausing to talk
to a student, he forgot his direction and walked home. Mrs. Einstein turned him around and sent him
forth again. Great minds think great
thoughts, and are not stuck with petty details.
The Do-Nothing
Society has developed a hypothesis more basic than Einstein's Relativity. This teaches
(a) mass even if it doesn't move is work, and (b) motion even without
mass is work. Thus, never joining mass with motion or motion with mass will
eliminate work. How to accomplish this
is a detail, since the hypothesis is established. The DNS thinks only great thoughts like
Einstein. This is a great thought.
Nothing in the
DNS is organized. It is purely a
do-nothing happening: no dues, no dress-up, no committees, no speaker, no
program, no bylaws, no planning and no purpose.
If you are of like mind or of no mind, or have nothing better to do,
think about joining DNS.
I took a brave
new step towards DNS when we came to [the retirement home]. Here, our meals are prepared for us, the lawn
is mowed, snow is removed, and you don't need a driver's license. A barber shop, bank, massage parlor, and
movie theater are all on the premises.
To hear intelligent speakers on controversial subjects one need only walk
to the auditorium; one need not get involved in the controversies. To vote one need only don bedroom slippers
on election day and a bathrobe and schlep to the room where they have brought
all the voting machines. [Partisan statement removed by the Common Household Mom.]
{written by my
father on Oct 12, 2007}
Responses
from the family:
Dear Dad,
Get off your
lazy butt and get to work. Be of use.
Please write a
book, or at least a paper, or a letter to the editor of the NY Times,
explaining our Founding Fathers’ take on religion.
- {my brother}
P.S. Where do I
sign up for this Do-Nothing Society?
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Dear Dad,
It must have
taken you a lot of work to put together your proposal for The Do-Nothing
Society. Doesn't that make you
ineligible for membership?
Love,
Carolyn
P.S. I'd like to suggest this song for your
Society Anthem:
TITLE: The Pirates Who
Don't Do Anything
ARTIST: Mike
Nawrocki
[Veggie Tales]
{Refrain}
We are the
Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
We just stay
home and lie around
And if you ask
us to do anything
We'll just tell
you, we don't do anything
{etc.}
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