temporary fixes

Active life without any contemplative dimension is incapable of friendly gentleness. It finds expression in accelerated production and destruction. It uses up time. Even in the time of leisure, which is still subject to the compulsion of labour, the relationship with time is no different. Things are destroyed and time is killed. Contemplative lingering gives time. It widens that being that is more than being-active. When life regains its capacity for contemplation, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness. If all contemplative elements are driven out of life, it ends in a deadly hyper-activity. The human being suffocates among its own doings. What is necessary is a revitalization of the vita contemplativa, because it opens up spaces for breathing. Perhaps the mind itself owes its emergence to an excess of time, an otium, eve to a slowness of breath. Byung-Chul Han. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017.