Maybe it all boils down to something quite simple: I am — at my core — very much a Human BEING, but not much of a Human DOING.
This quote above is key and what represents the heart of the matter in this Western society. A culture with Western values for which we have been trained, indoctrinated and formed to only be "Human DOINGS" in order to pay as soon as possible the debts of others in this society which taxes us from birth for the mere fact of having arrived to their world.
A rather distorted and biased vision of a world more based on competition than cooperation. Which is exactly what distinguishes it and makes it different from the culture of the Eastern world. That by being ancestral cultures much much older than ours, they have already gone through all that malarkey and know pretty well where that "Human DOINGS" idiosyncrasy leads.
Which means that for quite some time now they have begun to cultivate more and give it more importance to behave as authentic Human BEINGS. Because they have already understood and verified that there is no such thing as procrastination in a world of cooperation. Since they know very well there will always be time available to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.