4kw Chapter 9
The chapter is about how to spend this moment.
The post is just some raw notes and thoughts from my reading of Four Thousand Weeks.
Notes
In ancient Rome/Greece, work was fundamentally undignified and not the point of being alive. Leisure was life's center of gravity. I wonder how much of that is more about the authors and audience at the time? Maybe that's too cynical.
Sequence of social control: church, print, radio, tv, interactive internet?
Clock time driven work of the industrial revolution put work before leisure.
Remember to be lazy, you need it.
The absurdity that is the doctrine of predestination.1 How insidiously am I infected?
A day of rest (sabbath) is a formal way of conceding that we're on the receiving end of this existence.
Stepping back, aren't all activities atelic? Atelic = hobby.
Hobbyist as subversive, even (especially) those pathetic hobbies.
Having no hope of doing some activity well is an excellent reason to stop optimizing how well you use your time.
- Reminder to put cross link from here to _How to Think_ bit about animal automata.↩︎