Evagrius claims, in fact, that the slothful are often in a frenzy of action—now this, now that—in their disgust and abhorrence at what God mandates. We might actually anticipate the slothful individual and culture to be very busy, and, as the purposelessness and arbitrary nature of their business is revealed, to be ever more distracted, exhausted, and bitter in the unending attempt to express and display freedom without humility before the yokes of place, limits, order.
