My flag is the hammock: The idler's guide to indirect nonaction.
Dec 16 2016
My flag is the hammock. I wrap myself in it. If they want to burn my flag, they'll have to burn me with it. Nothing is less useful to capitalism than sleep. Granted, sleep restores the worker's ability to work. Which is why, to be truly subversive, one must nap to excess. Nap till it hurts. Nap till it hurts the economy. More than that, one must stare into space. Wander aimlessly. Take up space in the pool without doing laps. And nap some more.
Jeff Dorchen makes the case for nondirect inaction against the coming horrors of the Trump administration, and the continuing horrors of our political and economic systems - you can march, you can protest, you can make art, but he'll be quietly making a powerful statement against the demands of productivity. Shhh don't wake him.
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Jeff Dorchen
Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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