Cruel And Unusual
June, 2014
Jonathan Crary considers sleep a casualty of modern life in a world ruled by capitalist ideology, and I can't disagree ("Sleepers Awake," March). In America especially, we scorn the (mostly European) nations where vacation days are plentiful, retirement is early and pensions aren't penurious. What is sleep but an unpaid daily holiday? Like the waxing and waning of daylight, all this is part of a cycle. Whatever DARPA has cooking to keep our soldiers alert and fighting fit for weeks on...
