Dang, the intellectual class is losing the will to live! I LOVE LEISURE. I always have. It is a luxurious state of existence for a human being who has an endless capacity for imagination and is still living in a posture of curiosity towards the world, beings, and the cosmos.
The point is that not everyone deserves it or has an ability to exist within the vastness of its existential expanse. These two are feeling The Void. In that sense, “earning your leisure” is more of a spiritual struggle than an economic one.
As the illusional trappings of the materialist ego fall, The Void appears.
What will you fill it with?
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“Life is extending while the things that traditionally gave it meaning are in decline.”
“We have become “a downwardly mobile species”, argues the writer Tom Rachman. A life in which our minds are superfluous seems less worth living.”
“Our lifespan has risen faster than our healthy years. The discrepancy is worst in the US, where the average person in 2019 lived with disability or sickness for 12.4 years before death.”
—Steven Kuper, “The creeping feeling that life is getting too long,” FT, 4/11/26
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“If I am right, and the political chaos of this era owes something to leisure, then it follows that we should fear the future.”
—Janan Ganesh, “The Tragedy of Leisure,” FT, 4/11/26

