Open up your phone while in a queue or on the bus, and your brain goes into a restless kind of limbo... it's not boredom that makes me reach for Instagram but the urge to quiet other thoughts.
Humans thrive on purpose, peril and other people, but are busy building a world that cuts these things out... Still we work to eliminate conflict and disorder.
We can't stand boredom but plan for nothing else. We're more bored these days, not less. It's a paradox of modern life.
In fact, paradise itself, as we tend to imagine it, would be horribly dull: predictable bliss for all eternity. How we would hate it.
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