You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

He made this argument at a presentation at the Long Haul Bookshop (in Berkeley) in 2008. A. An article based on this presentation is forthcoming in Anarchy magazine.

He is the author of The Abolition of Work and Other Essays Beneath the Underground Friendly Fire Anarchy After Leftism and numerous political essays. on January 4 1951) is an American anarchist. Bob Black (born Robert Charles Black Jr.