What are we so busy doing?

Its been a while since I've posted. My apologies to my reader.

So why haven't I posted in a while? I've been busy. Which has gotten me to thinking a bit about what we are all so busy doing. Because everyone is busy, or so it seems. But what bugs me is that it seems there's a bit of counter-evidence available: for example, TV watching is bemoaned as a national habit and the amount of mostly useless information available on the web (including blogs) is soaring. I wonder what the definition of "busy" really is. (By the way, I'd look up the statistics to prove my above points, but well, I don't have time. :-)

So this got me to thinking that maybe, just maybe, we're all so busy because we're being told that we're all so busy all the time and therefore just believe it. It makes us seem more important. But why else would it be useful for us to believe that we're so busy all the time? So we're more likely to be willing to purchase all the time-saving products that manufacturers are creating all the time.

Just think of all of the time- and labor-saving devices and products that are marketed to us. And what are we doing with all that extra time and energy? Rotting our brains out watching reality TV and creating myspace.com pages? We should be ashamed of ourselves. Maybe everyone buying a convenience product should be required to provide some sort of proof that they are doing something socially redeeming with all the time they are saving by using that product.

But, of course, we're too busy for that.