Essay Question 1

Essay 1

            The “old leisure” that the author is referring to is only the improvement in our own technology. If we look at what the people did back when she is saying they had leisure we would see that they only did what they could with their limited technology. Compared to how things are now a days if there was this technology back then I feel like nobody would have done anything different than we do now.

            With all of the available technology they had back then they really couldn’t do much which the author thinks is the “old leisure”. She thinks that because they had less technology and more time that the people from the old had more leisure time when in reality they just didn’t have anything better to do with their time. For instance, when people tried to do things at night it was hard because there was not as much to do like going online or anything like that.

            The author has a point though that now a days we don’t really have much “leisure” because we are always using technology. If you look at people today you will see that everyone has some sort of technology that they use every day, for most people it’s their phones. When people are bored rather than thinking of something to do they just get sucked into their technology and this is what the author is referring to as people losing their “old leisure”.

            All in all, technology has come a long way from what it used to be and has provided many benefits but also taking away something that we could all enjoy. If the people she is referring to had this technology I am sure that they would do the same and use it rather than keep their ways of using “old leisure”.