when it comes to hobby see what it means......
Quote:Hobby
A hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time. Hobbies can include collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements. A is lengthy and always changing as interests and fashions change
it presupposes that one has time free from urgency in meetings ones survival to devote to a particularly pleasure deriving activity.
one must also have the money to so indulge in the hobby activity. one must be financially sound enough to have the time in thee first place, to indulge in a hobby. most people do not.
so who are we dealing with here who are free to talk about indulging in a hobby..guys with money living a life in which hobby is an active idea ..surely people with money and 'education', professionally employed, or with professions out of the colleges and universities of the culture in which we live
yet my argument is that life has never been hobby..that hobby is a recent thing of european capitalist creation to occupy the rich, the middle and their money. most peoples time.
life has always been urgent with people.,most people. that is they have always had to focus all their time and energy making the means of survival. so as we talk about time for hobby do we really have the time to do so..are there any other focus that is urgent currently that is so great it ought to occupy out time as opposed to any single focus designed for some sort of pleasure that does not permit focus on the current challenge to survival?
my argument is that there is such urgency right now that challenges us all right now that is dangerous, that our response must be to focus on it at the expense of all other considerations, with a view to eliminating that challenge to make life secure for us the people.