[extropy-chat] _In Praise of Slowness_ by Carl Honore

[Terry W. Colvin]

I read a review in The Economist this week, 'Life at a different pace.'
< http://www.economist.co.uk/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=2745438 >

This seems fortean to me.

Terry


A couple of curiosities cited include Society for the Deceleration of Time
and a Slow Sex movement.

< http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20040515/BKSLOW15/TPEntertainment/ >
< http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/actor/default.xslt/nodenr-129096 >


< http://www.startribune.com/stories/384/4714025.html >
A few years back, Canadian journalist Carl Honore decided to put the brakes on
his life after hearing about an absurd concept: The one-minute bedtime story.
Honoré was bothered by the idea of a 60-second "Little Red Riding Hood," but
he was bothered more by how much it initially appealed to him. However
hyperactive modern life is, he realized, fast-forwarding through quality time
is even worse. There is, he notes, "a gnawing disconnect between what we want
from life and what we can realistically have, which feeds the sense that there
is never enough time."


-- 
"Only a zit on the wart on the heinie of progress." Copyright 1992, Frank Rice


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