Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
“What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.”
“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.”