[hoaw]

I have done similar things and it generally isn't. Or it is getting very hard to make it so.

Western society has become much more hierarchical in recent years. It is harder and harder to find any "cracks in system" on a fundamental level. Even if you would consider leisure to be neutral, and not in need of meaning, most people aren't even starting from a neutral point. So if you do something else you end up being underprivileged rather than in leisure.

[52-6F-62]

I think you misunderstand what I mean by classical definition of leisure.

This kind of runs through it:

https://www.academia.edu/17614838/Aristotle_Leisure_and_the_...

or

https://blogs.harvard.edu/nobleleisure/aristotle-on-work-vs-...

Bonus material (wider in scope, though):

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html

[hoaw]

Not unlikely, which is why I wrote somewhat vaguely. Ironically I don't have time to read your resources at the moment. My point is that there just isn't that much room for other things these days. So many things, from a $5 coffee to housing, is based on the idea that everyone is working all the time. You can of course quit working, pay the same rent and lock yourself in a room trying to forget the outside world until you can't. But I am not sure that is a road to happiness either. I mean, many people can barely achieve "weekend glory" these days.