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[cdfallenangel]

"We stopped taking our afternoon breaks in life because it became too expensive to stop the machines and then turn them back on (during the industrial revolution), so productivity took a higher place than human well-being"

- my psych professor on why our culture has so many sleep-deprived, insomniac people today.

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[mermaidangst]

i don't know about your professor but i still have afternoon breaks everyday... as does everyone i know.

[cdfallenangel]

I think he's talking on the national level... like hispanics have siesta time, and english have tea time (yes, i know the statements are probably very un-pc)... the US doesn't have anything that people across the nation recognize as a time to take a break (unless you count happy hour, but i don't think that really counts)

[vivid_figment]

... i'm sleep deprived b/c dreaken thinks night is day...