Idleness is required for deep meaning to appear.
- Idleness is required for deep meaning to appear.
- Deep meaning requires careful reflection.
- Feeling and thinking, not doing.
- Bertrand Russell had an old essay called In Praise of Idleness.
- It was published after World War I.
- He observed that during the war, a significant portion of the labor force was absent and the rest were focused on making weapons … and yet everything else kept working generally as before.
- It made him wonder, why can't we have four day work weeks?
- We used that excess industrial capacity built up for the second world war and deployed it on consumerism, the force of capitalism colonizing every nook and cranny of possibility.