Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.

Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.

Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.

The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.