More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa…

“More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary. I can’t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn’t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn’t matter.”

The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com (viaphotographsonthebrain)