20 août 2015

How leisure helps us reclaim our human dignity in a workaholic culture


Today, in our culture of productivity-fetishism, we have succumbed to the tyrannical notion of "work/life balance" and have come to see the very notion of "leisure" not as essential to the human spirit but as self-indulgent luxury reserved for the privileged or deplorable idleness reserved for the lazy.

-Brain Pickings