Apología del ocio

Sven Birkerts reflexiona sobre la ociosidad en su ensayo «The mother of possibility». Solo una objeción pondría: se esfuerza un poco demasiado… Copio la conclusión:

Idleness is the mother of possibility, which is as much as necessity the mother of inventiveness. Now that our technologies so adeptly bridge the old divide between industriousness and relaxation, work and play, either through oscillation or else a kind of merging, everything being merely digits put to different uses, we ought to ask if we aren’t selling off the site of our greatest possible happiness. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Thoreau. In idleness, the corollary maxim might run, is the salvaging of the inner life.