Don't forget
all of those studies that say Americans work more hours annually now than any other industrialized nation. We're a country of stressed out lab rats, with us going home, connecting to the corporate VPN every night and on weekends, taking cellphone calls 24x7x365, checking in with the office while on vacation (when we're not too busy to actually TAKE time off), etc.
We don't have time to eat good, mentally unwind, and just plain relax. On top of it all, as we watch the stock market, the economy, the job market, politics, and so on, it's a miracle we all haven't commited suicide yet.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
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