New Podcast Episode - How to Kill Time: Capitalism, Leisure and Productivity in Michael Ende's Momo (1973)

In this episode of Rakshasi’s Ramblings, I talk about German writer Michael Ende’s children’s fantasy novel, Momo. In Momo, the writer asks us to pause, to see time not as a resource to be hoarded, but as something we inhabit. Through the symbolic Grey Men and the innocent perception of young Momo, Ende unpacks how modern life’s obsession with productivity and efficiency corrodes our connection to the present. I explore how the book reveals the costs of our hurried existence, and what it might offer us in reclaiming a more mindful, meaningful relationship with time.

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