manumit \man-yuh-MIT\, transitive verb

I am a really cool guy. Just to illustrate how cool: I get a “word of the day” in my email every day.


Today’s word is a fertile ground from which to grow senseless ramblings:

manumit \man-yuh-MIT\, transitive verb:

To free from slavery or servitude.

To free from slavery or servitude. Could a typical 9-5 job be considered “servitude”? Lets see: one entry under the definition for Servitude is “Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses”. I think you could definitely characterize employment as a lack of personal freedom. That really is the point of working for somebody else, right? You do what they want you to do, not what you necessarily want to do? And most people will do all kinds of stuff to avoid being funemployed. I myself even described in a previous post a recurring fantasy I have of working at an assembly line and punching a time-clock every day.

I feel it is my duty to spread the gospel of funemployment. Perhaps, Dear Readers, we could start a movement! We will not work for The Man, but only for ourselves! And to show our appreciation of life and beauty, we will use flowers and pastel colors to identify our movement. And we will abandon the footwear of this slavery society and sing songs about peace and love! And we’ll sell garbage and play poker on the internet! And write poetry. I am putting flowers in my hair as I type. They bring out my eyes.

My poetry is really bad though, so I’ll skip that part. I’ll just stick to the flowers and write guides on how to play poker online.

Speaking of which, I have submitted my first articles to Associated Content (http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/770338/lance_martin.html) though it sounds like it will take up to 2 weeks before they are actually published. THEN the money will start rolling in! maybe.

sigh.


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