Take the libertarian Marxist Herbert Marcuse, who in the 1960s denounced an America he saw as run by mediocre managers and technocrats. Applicants for the €1,600 grant have been set four questions to answer: What do you not want to do? But the recent explosion of interest in mindfulness and happiness studies suggests that Mr Von Borries’s social experiment deserves better. Mr Von Borries’s implicit challenge is that “inconsequential” is not a synonym for “unimportant”. Good luck to the eventual recipients of Mr Von Borries’s “idleness grants”.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2020 17:48 UTC