Dead-alive, hackneyed people
Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a "symptom of deficient vitality," and observed "a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation".
– Jenny Odell, 'How To Do Nothing'
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