The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out across the board.
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
