I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAll this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creativelymessage-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1314arrow-down1message-squareAll this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creativelyI Cast Fist@programming.dev to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAVeryCleverName@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoI think we’re just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our “interest threshold” such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom. Doomscrolling is the new boredom.
minus-squaresnor10@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIf doomscrolling is boredom, what is sitting down doing nothing? Agony?
I think we’re just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our “interest threshold” such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.
Doomscrolling is the new boredom.
If doomscrolling is boredom, what is sitting down doing nothing?
Agony?
Peace