Wired News’ Tony Long has a piece today that I can sure appreciate.
Just because technology makes it possible for us to work 10 times faster than we used to doesn’t mean we should do it. The body may be able to withstand the strain—for a while—but the spirit isn’t meant to flail away uselessly on the commercial gerbil wheel. The boys in corporate don’t want you to hear this because the more they can suck out of you, the lower their costs and the higher their profit margin. And profit is god, after all. (Genuflect here, if you must.)
The ease it provides is illusory. It has trapped you, made you a slave to things you don’t even need but suddenly can’t live without. So you rot in a cubicle trying to get the money to get the stuff, when you should be out walking in a meadow or wooing a lover or writing a song.
