HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. -Death
At first I was like, why are we shouting? And then I realized, Terry Pratchett is why we are shouting.
Very privileged of him to be able to feel bored rather than terrified.
being bored means that one would has to reflect on themselves… and that terrifies most so they doom scroll instead.
You think? Because honestly, I got so desensitized by now I honestly cannotncare less.
read a book?
So… apart from everything?
I wish I was bored, rather than worrying about the next atrocity.
You find world news interesting? For me that’s the most boring subject anyone could possibly bring up.
“Oh, Trump’s being a prick again? Didn’t see that one coming. Oh, people are fighting and killing each other again? How surprising. We’re still killing the planet and almost all the most prominent people in the world only care about stock prices? Shocker.”
I’d rather discuss literally anything else.
I think the point is that it’s interesting in the “this is getting more frightening, we’re at a precipice in human history” sense, not the “wow, now this is a new atrocity” sense. Considering it really is what everyone is focusing on, can they be blamed for wanting the interesting news to be, I dunno, more life affirming perhaps.
Or were we just too bored with the news having to dig for, or contrive, frightening material
then make more posts about literally anything else…
Learn to be bored.
