points by 082349872349872 1 year ago

Having been taught how to make use of leisure, and perhaps having been born with the temperament to do so, I agree with the sentiment.

However, the character of Katya, edgelording in Курьер (1986), suggests this desire is not universal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvdlAgreRug&t=4590s

Then again, maybe in a cornucopia age, governed by Pomona*, we could have it all: the laboratores [achievers ♦ and socializers ♥] could have their beauty products, sports cars, scarves, and small dogs, or if not those, at least Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy and Community Sings, while the bellatores [killers ♣] could have their hierarchical status games (as long as they were playing one up one down with each other and couldn't draft the rest of us into it), and the oratores [explorers ♠] could be on the (virtual?) islands, sharing interesting things and gratifying each others' intellectual curiosity?

* WTF, why do the Greeks not have a Pomona? Were they so scarcity-oriented that they couldn't conceive of sufficiency?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMAPOQedRxA