We watch television, we smoke more weed and drink to force our bodies to relax, we elevate and celebrate introvert behavior with T-shirts that read SORRY I’M LATE / I’D RATHER BE AT HOME. We try to feel okay with the way things are. But what haunts me is the truth that what you do with your leisure time now, when it’s so rare and so overdetermined and so overladen with exhaustion, is not—at least not necessarily—what you would do if you had more of it. So many of our best intentions, our most curious and creative and compassionate selves, are right there, closer beneath the surface of our
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