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Oct 23 2007

Lazy-Ass Nation

Jim Windolf writing for Vanity Fair:

While traditionally given to hard work, Americans have also, somewhat paradoxically, kept a close watch for any innovation that might take some of the drudgery out of everyday life.

I’m all for removing some of the tedium (vacuuming or dusting, for example) from everyday life, but Windolf seems to conclude that we’re “innovating” ourselves into laziness as part of a search for something beyond ourselves. Call me old-fashioned, but I fail to see how motorized ice cream cones or “canned hunting” lodges set us up for anything positive.

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