(the ethos of this section may seem at odds with post 1 but my aim is specifically to contrast “free time” with idleness or leisure [although leisure carries too much economistic bad air for me to be enthused about]. i appreciate that idleness could be the foil of the marxist sense of productive)
(as in a complete negation - not even instrumentally in service of productivity. but of course this does not rule out expression and creation - we may be our most active in our times of idleness! but who has been lucky enough to experience true idleness in the contemporary world?)