I see a lot of posts mocking people or HR depts or whoever who say “rest and relaxation makes you more productive,” because (they say) feeling the need to justify your rest in the frame of worker productivity is a symptom of evil capitalism.

In the same social circles (maybe the same people?) I see posts saying things like “I’m away till ___, bc Rest is Resistance” or “self-care is an act of radical revolution.”

As far as I can tell, you’ve just swapped the need to justify rest for productivity with the need to justify rest for ideological purity.

You shouldn’t feel the need to justify taking care of yourself. Stop folding logic pretzels to make a holier than thou post about resting and recovering; it’s not helping anyone (including, I suspect, the people who post them).