The downside of constant stimulation
A Philosophy of Boredom is an interview with author Lars Svendsen about his book of the same title from To the best of our knowledge. Svendsen agrees with Friedrich Nietzsche, that if we fly from boredom, we fly from ourselves. I’ve listened to some of this interview, and I’ll catch the rest later. You’ll need Real Media Player to listen.
Svendsen says that boredom is a sort of timeless hellish place of being in a moment that will never end. But this same sense of timelessness, of being here and now, can be an ecstatic meditative state. So what makes this state heaven or hell?
The whole clip from To the best of our knowledge is about doing nothing. An apt subject.