Christopher Morley On Laziness

In Nicholas Carr’s essay “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machine’s” he brings up the ethical problem of technology. Technology is all around today, but people are starting to wonder if this surplus of technology is starting to make the world less smart. Carr’s primary argument is as technology becomes more prevalent, people are losing knowledge to do certain tasks. Carr claims this is bad because people are putting their lives at risk and dying due to this lack of knowledge. People are starting to get lazier because of technology. They start to care less and think they are gaining something extra by using the technology, when, in fact it is the exact opposite. Carr states, “most of us want to believe that automation frees us to spend our time on higher pursuits but doesn’t otherwise alter the way we behave or think. That view is a fallacy” (5). This fallacy is affecting how people think and how current children are being taught in schools. Children as young as preschoolers are now starting to use tablets and computers for learning instead of having a teacher doing their job fully and actually teaching them. Instead of adding something to a task or helping to get it accomplished technology, “alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part” (5). Throughout his entire essay, Carr argues mostly why he believes too much technology could be harmful in the long run, but also states

Novelist, Christopher Morley, in his essay, “On Laziness,” explains that laziness not only has a negative connotation but it could be beneficial characteristics that affect our lives positively. Morley’s purpose is to argue that currently people in our society always think that laziness has a negative meaning however he implies that laziness can be positive. The author wants his readers of the essay and hard working adults to respects the laziness. Morley supports his implication by a first mocking slothful people, then he describes the attractiveness of indolent people, finally, he discusses their success. Throughout the essay, Morley uses irony, tone, parallelism, and ethos to develop the purpose.

Christopher Morley conveyed in "On Laziness" that "We have always secretly envied our lazy friends. Now we are going to join them." He utilizes a chiasmus and an allusion to ironically demonstrate that it would be in everyone's best interest to embrace a lazy lifestyle. These devices effectively show us the flawed reasoning behind views opposing his own. This convinces readers to accept Morley's underlying suggestion that being slothful isn't actually beneficial to us.

The number of individuals associated with the aspects of modern life is gradually amassing and this correlates to the number of those who continuously perform meaningless tasks.

Notwithstanding the self-centered connotation of my statement, I believe I have the best hobby in the world. There is, in a matter of fact, no other activity in which I show such devotement and passion as this one. If I could get paid for accomplishing it, I would be an impressively hardworking employee. Nevertheless, I would never feel like I would work. Literally. Because that is what my avocation is defined by, not working. To my mind, procrastinating is undoubtedly the most relaxing occupation ever created, since it simply consists in turning our backs to any labor, effort or responsibilities. However, its positive effects on one’s mind aren’t the only advantages it brings to a person. Actually, I can strongly state that it drastically improves one’s academics. In Gerald Graff’s article Hidden Intellectualism, the author explains how his passion, American football, has as well developed his intellect. He indeed describes it as “full of challenging arguments, debates, problems for analysis, and intricate statistics” (398). So how can procrastination as passion improve one’s work-ethics? Some advocates of early and well organized working would argue that procrastinating only leads to educational delay and that laziness is a vice that should be banned in our society. However, these romantic critics are too dogmatic in their provincial ideology. Procrastinating is extremely beneficial to our studies in a large variety of ways. To begin, it stimulates our imagination.

    Out of these students chronicled taking expository writing, Arpan was undoubtedly the most lackadaisical. In the beginning of the video he recorded himself doing various other activities in lieu of his homework, and when he finally sat down to work he could not focus, taking hours to produce anything. One of Arpan’s most characteristic lines was “I guess it’s going to be an all-nighter.” I often save my work until the last minute as well, and end up losing sleep to finish  homework. So, like Arpan, my own problems often stem from procrastination. Nonetheless, he and I also share a strong wish to improve ourselves and our work ethic. In Arpan’s case he was able to bring his wish to fruition; after beginning

It is one of the most underrated troubles. For it causes many issues in the world, though the blame always seems to fall upon some other reason of cause. Laziness causes people to not want to fulfill their wildest dreams to refusing to do necessary duties. On the island of the lotus eaters, Odysseus faces laziness at its most extreme. The lotus flowers cause people to magically lose their longing for home. Sailors don’t have much control over their laziness, for it was forced upon them by way of magic lotus flowers from the natives. My troubles with laziness come from giving up because something is “too hard”, when really I just am being lazy. It causes me to not work as hard as I should to achieve my goal of having a happy and healthy lifestyle. Laziness in Odysseus’ story and mine are similar because we both lose the lust for our goal. Luckily we can both overcome laziness with hard work and determination, even if Pandora releases it from the box

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The essay, “On Laziness” by Christopher Morley utilizes a lot of rhetorical strategies and diction to put affects on his readers and achieve his main purpose to convinces others use laziness as a skill in our everyday lives. To keep the audience reach more interested from the uses of appeal of pathos, Morley creates his speech to describes how people should be lazier and how did the uses of satirical tone have a big connection or big effects on laziness.

“Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid” –John Pfeiffer. The purpose of technology is to make human life easier, performing simple, medial tasks. Our society has reached a problem, however, that technology is taking over human purpose: computers are thinking, instead of humans making discoveries and ideas for themselves. While knowledge continues to progress, the nature of it becomes significantly more mechanical and technological. In Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan argues that people need to open themselves up to new innovations and technological changes in order for society to progress; however, too much advancement in technology can have the opposite effect, as

3) People often turn to technology instead of their imagination to be entertained, which can result in a loss of important thought processes. 4) Zomorodi states, “Mann's research finds that idle minds lead to reflective, often creative thoughts”. 5) Because technology keeps our mind busy, often with menial tasks, the brain has no time to wander. 6) The

Of course, that was wishful thinking! Under no circumstances would our mother, who instilled in us that too much idle time was wasted time, allow us to be lazy all summer. We were taught that never being idle was a good strategy to live by, too much inactivity makes it difficult to return to a State of Doing. Without a lot of pondering, Mom already masterminded a brilliant alternative plan.

In Christopher Morley’s satirical piece, “On Laziness”, Morley attempts to convince his readers to take time for reflective thinking instead of just continuing through their effective, restless lives. He achieves this purpose through redefinition, irony, details, as well as his concrete assertions.

All three authors note the potential benefits of technology in terms of convenience and quality of life. However, when the big picture is considered and a mental laziness is acquired in consumers, distractions from important tasks including texting and driving, and

The clock is ticking, the work is piling up, and with only a few hours to go before sunrise you stop and realize that you have just read some fifty pages and absorbed almost nothing. Some would agree when I say that this situation epitomizes one of the common problems of the Net Generation. With the help of the Internet, not only has every aspect of life gotten faster and more efficient, but it has changed the way people process information and perform tasks. In addition, while technology does have its benefits, the extensive use of the internet is affecting the way people think.