One Aspect Of Fast London

A Conclusion I’ve Come To At The Idler Is That It Starts With Retreating From Work But It’s Really About Making Work Into Something That Isn’t Drudgery And Slavery, And Then Work And Life Can Become One Thing.

Idleness For Me Is Not A Giving Up On Life But A Spirited Grabbing Hold Of It.

Little Things Like Making Clothes, Baking Bread, Cooking, Even Useless Things Like Bird-watching, Sketching Flowers, Playing Guitar In The Home - That Sort Of Time Is Gone. And The Time We Have? We're So Exhausted, We Want To Let Ourselves Get Sucked In To The Escape World Of Tv. I'm Speaking From Experience; I'm Not Above All This.

What Seems Extraordinary Is That The Richest Countries In The World, In Terms Of Economic Output, Are The Ones Where We Work Hardest. You Would Have Thought That The End Of All This Innovation, Technological Advancement, And Financial Wizardry Should Be To Create Less Work, Not More Of It.

Surely, Anyway, A Working Day Of Eight Or Nine Hours Which Is Not Split By A Nap Is Simply Too Much For A Human Being To Take, Day In, Day Out, And Particularly So In Hot Weather.