Dudeism's claim is that ease is a position rather than a failure, and its founder argues it at length and with citations. The case runs: most striving makes its object worse; the demand to be productive is a recent and local superstition rather than a fact about human beings; and declining it takes more nerve than complying, because the social penalty is real. The church draws the line at laziness, which it distinguishes carefully — the Dude in the film is not idle, he bowls, drives, argues and pursues a grievance across the whole picture. What he does not do is treat any of it as urgent. Dudeism is unusual among the lines here in that its content could be stated without the joke and would survive the removal, which is precisely what its founder says.