Ted K on boredom

[ey88]

Finally, one learns that boredom is a disease of civilization. It seems to me that what boredom mostly is is that people have to keep themselves entertained or occupied, because if they aren't, then certain anxieties, frustrations, discontents, and so forth, start coming to the surface, and it makes them uncomfortable. Boredom is almost nonexistent once you've become adapted to life in the woods. If you don't have any work that needs to be done, you can sit for hours at a time just doing nothing, just listening to the birds or the wind or the silence, watching the shadows move as the sun travels, or simply looking at familiar objects. And you don't get bored. You're just at peace.

 

[The Homelander]

Bump but I can’t read it all because of my attention span

 

[ShowerMaxxing]

People describe feeling for connected and free when out in nature “doing nothing.” Hours pass quickly, without subway surfers

 

[ey88]

Bump but I can’t read it all because of my attention span

Read it

 

[lifted]

It's definitely a disease with symptoms included. 100% . It's not something mental. You literally feel it. Even worse for people who genetically have higher levels of energy/stress hormone than others, they suffer the most when bored.

 

[ey88]

@Ultimate Subhuman™ can you do this one

 

[Klasik616]

We used to have simpler lives

 

[Ultimate Subhuman™]

 

[ey88]

@PeakIncels oops this is the one I meant to tag you in lol

 

[PeakIncels]

if you don't have any work that needs to be done, you can sit for hours at a time just doing nothing, just listening to the birds or the wind or the silence, watching the shadows move as the sun travels, or simply looking at familiar objects. And you don't get bored. You're just at peace.

I could never bro

 

[Gonthar]

A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. - Emil Cioran.