Prof Clive Hamilton comments on boredom and the pursuit of happiness
Friday, February 11, 2011
Kick back and endure being bored and uncomfortable
Clive Hamilton March 8, 2010
Idleness is celebrated in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. In Canberra — where long working hours are obligatory, where dutiful public servants are dragged from their beds by self-important ministers, where the Prime Minister's office has more burnouts than Summer Nats — extolling the virtues of idleness is surely subversive.
Idleness in all manifestations has come under sustained attack from economists, business commentators and governments who tell us that happiness comes from having more stuff. Idleness is ''unproductive''; even retirement is being loaded up with guilt.
Click below for the full Sydney Morning Herald article from March 8, 2010
Prof Clive Hamilton