In Praise of Idleness
I’m enjoying Skidelsky&Skidelsky’s defense of leisure (in contrast with both work and idleness) as the goal of advanced capitalism. (The book is here.) Yet I’m not sure *idleness* gets a fair shake. As George Carlin put it:
When does a kid ever get to sit in the yard with a stick anymore? You know? Just sit there with a fucking stick. Do today’s kids even know what a stick is? You sit in the yard with a fucking stick… and you dig a fucking hole. You know? And you look at the hole, and you look at the stick…
