an expression of the world turned upside down by the Fall. This preoccupation with the future is, therefore, not harmless. It not only brings mounting anxiety—for what is anxiety except living out the future over and over again before it actually reaches us?—but also as Berger notes, it brings “endless striving, restlessness, and a mounting incapacity for repose.”8 This is no small anomaly because Western cultures all sustain large, flourishing industries whose sole purpose is to produce leisure