Boredom is a mental state, one born of a lack of enough to absorb one’s attention. But it’s not a human inheritance; it’s a condition of a certain kind of modernity, and specifically, the one-way ratchet of stimulation and diversion. What if one could liberate oneself from this trap? Not by succumbing to the king’s compulsive desire for ever more diversion and amusement, nor through the quick fix of the entertainment beckoning to us from the screen, but by simply rejecting boredom. By embracing stillness and idleness, by allowing the mind to wander.
