"conscious inertia"

I think my subject line is a reference to Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground (the English translation of course), which of course is why the words appear between quotation marks. Anyway... Much of my idle thoughts are occupied with reciting lyrics and re-creating music inside my brain. There are many songs that have provided me much needed moral and emotional support lately. The lyrics that follow are one of them. The song is called Why we are lazy and it is from Men's Recovery Project:

Why we are lazy? Because the future goes to the slipshod
and the slothful and the bovine,
because the dim bulbs get the fleshy pulp
and the brights settle for the rind.
this is why . this is why .
Because it's the boors and dinks
and dullards who always get the prizes
and it's the virtuous who get the shaft
and the chaff that always rises.