Camp Idle in The Times
05 August 2005
Back in June, a load of Idler readers went on a weekend retreat at Dial House, the arts centre run by Crass founders Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher. Editor Tom gave a talk, as did John Nicholson, Jay Griffiths and Penny Rimbaud. John Moore played songs round the camp fire. So far so good. But the whole thing has been written up in a piece in the Times Saturday magazine, to appear tomorrow (6 August 2005). So you might like to take a look. We await the article with some trepidation, as who knows what cruel spin a Murdoch paper might put on our band of idle warriors?
"An idle mind is a questioning, sceptical mind. Hence it is a mind not too bound up with ephemeral things, as the minds of workers are. The idler, then, is somebody who separates himself from his occupation: there are many people scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation."