This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Monday, October 16th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

So we don't lay waste our powers, we should cultivate the ability to control ourselves, but in the modern world we can

fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way like never before. The Cato Institute's

40th anniversary celebration in May I spoke with Charles Murray about the good life and how to live it.

Current technology, with regard to my own behavior, let alone anybody else's, is that I can entertain myself endlessly in ways that I couldn't

before. I mean it wasn't that long ago that I would have in the evening a couple of choices.

Maybe there would be something good on TV, but probably not.

And there was a book I should probably read, and that would be another option to read the book,

but there were hours to fill in in the evening.

What can I do now?

Point number one is, there is great TV that I haven't seen because there is so much great TV so I can turn that

on.

And you can watch everything that's ever been on TV for the most part.

Any time I want to, Yeah. And then I can also if I get bored with that. I like to play chess so I just go online and I play a game of chess with somebody in the Netherlands and that's fun and then I browse the web I check in my

Twitter feed I could keep this up I can keep this up and often I do keep this up

indefinitely and guess what up and I do keep this up indefinitely.

And guess what?

In doing that, I don't read a lot of the books that I wish I had read.

And I would be happy to have read them and it gets to something that I think your comments alluded to as well.

In the short term, yeah we are kind of lazy. In the short term we don't necessarily do that thing which we know we will give us a lot more satisfaction in the long term.

The good thing about life the way it used to be was, we didn't have a whole lot of choice.

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