The concept of "downshifting" has been around for a couple of decades (at least). In light of "Take Back Your Time Day" (www.timeday.org), which occurred on 10/24/06, the idea of downshifting is buzzing (slightly) yet again. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to search google. I was astonished to find the first entry was a link to edmunds.com that deals with "downshifting" in a car. That spoke volumes to me. Our society is more focused on material objects and how they work than a practice that could lead to significant improvement in the overall human condition. There is a tremendous amount of work to be done...
..."against the run of the mill / swimming against the stream / life in two dimensions / is a mass-production scheme".
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