The "busy" trap

"What she had mistakenly assumed was her personality — driven, cranky, anxious and sad — turned out to be a deformative effect of her environment."

"I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter."

Archimedes’ “Eureka” in the bath, Newton’s apple, Jekyll & Hyde and the benzene ring: history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments and dreams.

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/