The question, “what is it we are to do once we have assembled” may occur to you. And behind this question the looming spectre of boredom may loom. Yet, we must not seek to answer this question, or even engage it, for in doing so we reinvest in a cultural logic that states we must always be in the process of doing something. Likewise, we are not interested in doing nothing for that too operates within the logic of doing. Notice how the question seems impossible to escape. It burdens us, threatens us by coloring our time,both alone and together. And why should it not do so? We have spent decades living and in every sense embodying this logic. It is who we are insofar as it is how we have been forced to know each other and even ourselves. It is no small wonder that upon meeting someone the first thing we ask is “What do you do ?” (via Endroit: The Art Of Traveling)
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