As I travel the country, a number of people have been asking me: What’s the Leisure Ethic?
Working 24/7… 24 hours a week; 7 months a year
While living in a 12’ x 12’, off-grid house, I noticed people reclaiming the right to be idle! They are ratcheting down from overdeveloped to developed, from too much to enough. Dr. Jackie expressed it to me once like this: part of the joy of simplifying one’s material life is that you don’t have to work long hours to buy and maintain a bunch of stuff. This leaves time for open-ended chats — like the kind I began to have in North Carolina. Doing nothing is a carbon neutral activity!