Hurkle-Durkle Is the New Way to Self-Care Ourselves to Death
Tracey Emin’s 1998 piece My Bed, on display at Christie’s on June 27, 2014, in London, England. (Rob Stothard via Getty Images)
Thanks to the internet, there are fancy names for old-fashioned laziness.
Every few years, the algorithm latches on to a new justification for doing absolutely nothing.
Sometime this winter, I noticed videos about bed rot, which is what it sounds like: plonking down in bed indefinitely. Like most people, I didn’t need an instructional video to teach me about lying down. My bedroom is tiny; it basically just fits a bed, on pur…
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