[Main Blog Post] A Few Thoughts on Slack

[jprussell]

If you've ever bumped up against the Church of the Subgenius, then you know "slack." I give my own take on what it means to me in my latest post.

Comments

[k_a_nitz]

I really enjoyed your assessment of slack, and it made me reflect also that the multiple Jesuses may be a deep way of thinking about the Trinity ...

Re: "It is the willingness to cast aside very serious obligations because they do not actually serve what you want or need."
The idea that there are different forms of serious obligations - those you want/need and those you don't (which may be chosen for other reasons) - is key to obtaining slack. Perhaps Zvi's binding constraints of behaviour should really be unchosen binding constraints of behaviour.

Slack Seeker

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Jeff,

Great post! We must be on a similar wavelength as I just finished the second draft of an article that has slack as one of its main themes. Far out!

I don't go into the Church of the Subgenius in my article really (fan though I am). What I do use as a jumping off point is the movie Slacker. I trust you are familiar with your fellow Texan Richard Linklater's first feature film? If not, it's worth the time IMO, but of course, it might just be a hassle for you.

In any case, I like what you had to say about hassle. That jibes. And your thoughts on being in a platoon also cohere with what I've heard from other people who've been in the armed forces.

Hope you have a good rest of the week! I'm going to try to get some pipe time in, myself.

Praise "Bob"!

Justin Patrick Moore
www.sothismedias.com