Coming on the heels of this article, I'm beginning to wonder how any work gets done in England. Today, the Guardian offers a book excerpt that ponders why we're so obsessed with being busy:
For all modern society's promises of leisure, liberty and doing what you want, most of us are still slaves to a schedule we did not choose. Why have things come to such a pass? Well, the forces of the anti-idle have been at work since the fall of man.Posted by tgibbons at August 9, 2004 05:45 PM