Earlier in the summer, a bear took a dump in the driveway - not quite Jurassic Park like, but wow. Bears are the only things that big around here, and panthers bury their business, being cats. So we could genuinely answer the question, "Does a bear shit in the woods?"
There was another article I read but didn't link to talking about free time and the lack thereof. It cited Parkinson's Law - that work expands to fill the time available - and was questioning why, when we have so much technology that could potentially free us to do other things, do we continue 'working' so much? Many people in America still work a 40-hour week, despite only accomplishing maybe 3 hours of actual work each day. Housewives put in 52-hour weeks when they don't really need to. No actual conclusions were drawn, it was more to point out that we seem to occupy a lot of our time with busy-ness. So it sort of made me think that in the face of that work load, and the pressure some people may be under due to family or social obligations, maybe they feel like energy bars are a good time-saver. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this.
But I do think if people had more time to cook, they would. I don't think everyone needs to be putting multiple course meals requiring hours of prep on the table every night, but it's satisfying to stir up a few ingredients and make something tasty, and not everyone gets to experience that.
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There was another article I read but didn't link to talking about free time and the lack thereof. It cited Parkinson's Law - that work expands to fill the time available - and was questioning why, when we have so much technology that could potentially free us to do other things, do we continue 'working' so much? Many people in America still work a 40-hour week, despite only accomplishing maybe 3 hours of actual work each day. Housewives put in 52-hour weeks when they don't really need to. No actual conclusions were drawn, it was more to point out that we seem to occupy a lot of our time with busy-ness. So it sort of made me think that in the face of that work load, and the pressure some people may be under due to family or social obligations, maybe they feel like energy bars are a good time-saver. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this.
But I do think if people had more time to cook, they would. I don't think everyone needs to be putting multiple course meals requiring hours of prep on the table every night, but it's satisfying to stir up a few ingredients and make something tasty, and not everyone gets to experience that.