Utopian escape fantasies remain secretly obsessed with productivity.
Evidence
Frazier’s example of a more productive man is no accident. Like someone running a corporate digital detox retreat, he is obsessed with productivity, claiming fantastically that mankind is only 1 percent as productive as it could be. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 188
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s task of defending Odell against the withdrawal misreading: escape is not withdrawal, and retreat dreams still serve productivity. — connects to: Passive idleness, not activity, is the truest form of utopia