What is wrong with laziness? (9/11/97)

Just been looking through an old archive of stuff... an article written on 9/11/1997 and rather self importantly sent to a newspaper! Obviously didn't get published. But it seems I have gone full circle because I'm coming back to this view of strong self-reliance being the basis of life.

What is wrong with laziness?
Laziness as a taboo subject I consider has confused the place of work in our lives. The opposite of laziness is busyness or rather business, and yet action for its own sake is not worth while whether it be working or buying, it requires meaning and therefore ethics. By ethics I do not mean universal truths for such impartial clubs as humanity, history or the Good but rather the personal questioning that ensures that we are an integral part of what we do, and can justify this to ourselves for ourselves. Only in this way can our actions become meaningful and we live our life: it's absurd to allow someone to live your life for you, as well as live theirs, for who then are they?
Laziness is then not just a deficiency of busyness but rather a deficiency in meaning. If this deficiency is measured at all - itself a sign of lazy attitudes - it is done so better by high crime statistics and lottery ticket or alcohol sales than by low ‘profitable’ productivity. For this reason it is irresponsible and lazy two fold, for politics and business to have its eyes on such irrelevant issues as the unemployment figures, profit or the value of the pound. In their stead a stimulation of not legal, financial or group, but personal responsibility and therefore meaning was all that was ever required. A change in very basic attitudes to life is required if individually and collectively we are to make any progress in the next millennium.

Where have I been all these years? to find stuff from before the time of "my muse" so in accordance with where I am today?