I would think it would make you feel a bit less alienated from your labor too, because if your mind is always somewhere else, if you're always sort of feeling overworked and dreaming about different tasks that might be more restorative or whatever, I think that it can make even very connected work, work feel somewhat alienated.

I do think that the idea of a sabbatical might relieve that a little bit because you could spend your time instead daydreaming about what you're going to do with this guaranteed amount of time off.

And I also wanted to say that I would hope that if we were to achieve something like this kind of sabbatical, that most people would use it for truly indulging the wonders of the world, whether that's, you know, traveling or like, like I say,

in the article, like taking ceramics classes or another thing that I said, I think I said something

like writing graphic novel adaptations of 11th century Icelandic sagas that nobody asked for,

you know, doing that kind of stuff. Why would no one ask for that? That's amazing.

It's not like it's the 12th century Icelandic saga.

I mean, come on.

Yeah, come on.

But I also think that one of the most rewarding ways to engage with the world is actually to participate in activism or movement building or, you know, building knowledge to that effect.

Let's say that you're a person who works in some sort of service profession, that you're doing something, you know, productive to make the world a better place when you're

working and then in your time off, you're relaxing. Maybe that's what you want to do and maybe you

ought to do that, but you'd also have the choice to be able to like really get your hands dirty

with something that you don't have the time to do that actually is a part of that broader political project of making the world a better place. So I hinted at the piece that maybe there's

a, I had some hypotheticals. I said, maybe there's a person who never got to go to college, so they

never got to study abroad, not that many people who go to college get to study abroad at all.

And they've never had an opportunity to travel, certainly not for an extended period of time. Maybe they choose to use their sabbatical to go to Japan. Maybe they go to

Hiroshima and where they go to learn Japanese. And the whole purpose for them is to just learn

Japanese so they could watch anime without subtitles because that's what they want to do in the world.

But maybe when they're there, they also learn a little bit about the history of

the atom bomb. Maybe they develop a greater awareness of, you know, the dangers of nuclear

proliferation. Maybe when they come home, they have like a greater political consciousness. And maybe,

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