Life in the Fast Lane: Living Miserably in the Commercial World

How the Western obsessions with speed, work, and productivity leave our lives unfulfilled

Joel Griffett
9 min readDec 3, 2020

--

Time lapse of a busy city highway at night, the blur of headlights signifying the speed of urban life.
Life at hyper-speed is but a blur. Source: Mark Denton (Unsplash)

As the cult of efficiency that is modern, Western civilisation plunders on, our precious time has long since been seized and incentivised and we are living inescapably within what Hakim Bey calls ‘the…

--

--

Joel Griffett

Cornish blogger and aspiring freelance writer/journalist.