We have become passive observers of the life that surrounds us

“There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency…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.”

From Bertrand Russell, in 1932.
Remarkably prescient.

xox Joany 🍕🍕

 
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