The ‘Busy’ Trap
The present hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it’s something we’ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it.
Tim Kreider
Tim Kreider is a cartoonist and essayist. His popular comic strip, The Pain—When Will It End?, ran in alternative weeklies for twelve years and has been collected in three books by Fantagraphics. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Week. He is the author of two collections of essays, We Learn Nothing and I Wrote This Book Because I Love You. He writes The Loaf on Substack.
(Author image: © Tim Kreider)