A quick word to family and friends who have wondered when I'll be less busy and have warned me about working too hard lately: I am aiming to devote more time to leisurely activities and catching up with the people in my life who really matter, though, alas, it may be hard to do before the end of the semester, which has been an absolutely grueling one.
Regretably, though predictably, contemporary academia has not learned from Nietzsche...
As a sign that esteem for the meditative life has decreased, scholars now compete with active people in a sort of hurried pleasure, so that they appear to esteem this sort of pleasure more highly than the kind that really is their due and that is in fact much more pleasurable. Scholars are ashamed of otium. Yet there is something noble about leisure and idleness.—If idleness really is the beginning of all vices at least it therefore finds itself in the closest proximity to all virtues; the idle person is always a better person than the active one.—But you surely do not think that in speaking of leisure and idleness I am referring to you, you sloths? —
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