In praise of doing nothing
- Written by Simon Gottschalk, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Modern life seems to encourage acceleration for the sake of acceleration – to what end?JoeyCheung/Shutterstock.comIn the 1950s, scholars worried that, thanks to technological innovations, Americans wouldn’t know what to do with all of their leisure time.
Yet today, as sociologist Juliet Schor notes, Americans are overworked, putting in...
