transition said:

while i’m here, imagine in 2050 half the population suffers with some level of substantial boredom, say that’s 4.85 billion people with a strong inclination to variously not suffer boredom

to put my idea crudely, given a choice between suffering the boredom or watching the earth burn, how might things turn out?

an overpopulation-induced pathological boredom, which sounds toffleresque perhaps

of course humans have culturally evolved many entertainments, are, will continue to do so, endlessly, maybe the future is mostly entertainments.

Or the future is mostly pandemics?

Only dull-minded people get bored.

Bubblecar said:

Only dull-minded people get bored.

I bet you get bored sometimes, it could be a brief moment, just a modest experience of it, and you do something so it doesn’t persist, adaptive creature you are, you could even have a few thoughts denying you ever experience it to patch that up

consider though the possibility of being bored with being awake, I mean did being awake ever get tedious for you, did you ever get tired of it? A wonderful remedy really to the sensation or possibility of boredom, sleeping is, I mean if you sleep enough there is literally less time to get bored, though you might not read about that in the entertainments for the wakeful world, from the wisdom of the wakeful

did you ever strum the ukulele for a while after a few wines, and think i’ve had enough of that, have a look in the forum and have the sensation of uninterest, then go have a sleep

i’m conjuring victor meldrew going back and forth between the home handyman book and the medical book

transition said:

Bubblecar said:

Only dull-minded people get bored.

I bet you get bored sometimes, it could be a brief moment, just a modest experience of it, and you do something so it doesn’t persist, adaptive creature you are, you could even have a few thoughts denying you ever experience it to patch that up

consider though the possibility of being bored with being awake, I mean did being awake ever get tedious for you, did you ever get tired of it? A wonderful remedy really to the sensation or possibility of boredom, sleeping is, I mean if you sleep enough there is literally less time to get bored, though you might not read about that in the entertainments for the wakeful world, from the wisdom of the wakeful

did you ever strum the ukulele for a while after a few wines, and think i’ve had enough of that, have a look in the forum and have the sensation of uninterest, then go have a sleep

i’m conjuring victor meldrew going back and forth between the home handyman book and the medical book

I have suffered excruciating boredom for months at a time, since I retired.

> did you ever strum the ukulele for a while after a few wines, and think i’ve had enough of that, have a look in the forum and have the sensation of uninterest, then go have a sleep

Subsititute piano for ukulele and yes.
I do own a ukulele, but haven’t got around to playing it.

I can well imagine a world that is driven by boredom into self-destructive behaviours,
such destructive behaviours as chronic complaining, watching the news, game addition, etc.

drop this here, a ponder, more of the toffleresque

it could emerge, that the force of culture, the big thing, the big world, gets all so big and fast, that nobody has time for the truth, and further what if the truth is humiliating, which it is sort of, exploring truth which involves truth about self

maybe humiliation, self-humiliation that way, perhaps it will be chemically eliminated