Anti-Job, Pro-Freedom Quotes Of The Week 83, 84

The happy professional processional

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Perhaps you can judge the inner health of a land by the capacity of its people to do nothing—to lie abed musing, to amble about aimlessly, to sit having a coffee—because whoever can do nothing, letting his [sic] thoughts go where they may, must be at peace with himself.
Sebastian de Grazia



In African life, a person creates, produces, and makes time - "as much time as he [sic] wants". It is possible in technological society to waste time. So westerners, viewing an apparently idle African through the wrong lens, fail to see what time means here: "Those who are seen sitting down, are actually not wasting time, but either waiting for time or in the process of 'producing' time." Waiting for time? Even better, producing time? What harried citizen of a technological culture could resist the seductive appeal of this prospect? All we have to do is think differently, and then, as we sit idle, watching the clouds, we might become little factories, manufacturing time for ourselves. All the time we need, all the time there is.
James Gleick