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> The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them
by Angostura 5y ago
> The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
... but would they? Or would they keep scrolling down interminably. I know I'd like to think I would go back to school.
- kubb 5y agoYes, I would.
- perfunctory 5y agoRussell's essay has the answer: > The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.
- paulcole 5y agoI wouldn’t! There’s never been anything in my life that I’ve been as passionate about as doing nothing.