> Why are we doing that? What do you expect? The natural course for "the leisure majority class" would be a colorful ever-varying ever-shifting mixture of play

> Why are we doing that? What do you expect? The natural course for "the leisure majority class" would be a colorful ever-varying ever-shifting mixture of play, hobbyist endeavours, gamble, drugs, bohemian lives, sports, creative outputs of all kinds, a mild occasional flavour of anarchy. Actual human weathers instead of perpetual eternal grey September. Either "we, collectively", or our grown structures don't seem to prefer that. Make-work and bureaucracy and petty in-fights and peer politics are the fallback behavioural patterns --- almost everywhere people aren't, mentally speaking, "fighting for a cause" (whether it's a small firm trying to survive or grow to 'more leisurely levels', or collectively-militarily, or post-war reconstruction, or faked-but-masterfully-orchestrated as Big Consulting somehow manages to ;)