[BrenBarn]

Amen to disgust with the cult of speed. A large part of what people spend their time trying to do fast doesn't really need to be done at all; most of the rest doesn't need to be done fast. One of the tragedies of our modern world is that there are so many things that could be done that would make it better, and some of them are urgent, but instead people are rushing to do quickly stuff that would be better left undone.