If the world could sense how forcefully its own way of living carries it past experience, things might be changed profoundly. This is perhaps the root of the old Jewish teaching that if a sabbath were to be universally observed, the reign of heaven would begin.
But attempting to systematically accomplish this gains little. It is like Aristotle's metaphor for thought -- the army is in flight (to death), and then one soldier stops, turns around and looks, and then another, and then another. The army can't be commanded to do that. Its command is flight to death.
It is an age of industrial prosperity, so it's a sort of venial sin to pause from work. But the mechanical logic has to serve humanity, not govern it. And now that the logic of machines is encountering the linguistic turn, it will start to get an ascendency over the mind, a power based in words, and we will again have the same old danger of adoring the work of our hands.