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January 07, 2006
The end of boredom?
Categories: Words
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and business gadfly, has an interesting blog at blogmaverkick.com. In this post, he talks about how the increasing portability of media, especailly video, is leading to the end of boredom.
I'm curious as to what people think. My gut reaction is that he is dead wrong. I don't think boredom is the product of lack of available media. Boredom is more of a state produced by the intersection of individual psychology (motivation, interests, etc), social forces (what activities are accessible, what activities are permissible and accepted) and avaliablity of stimuli (video, print, whatever).
I find myself bored sometimes at my house, especially if Sarah isn't around. This is despite the fact that I have 75 channels of TV, boradband internet access, hundreds of books, thousands of comics, and LOTS of tasks around the house that still need to be completed (still need to hang the new shower curtain rod that we got for our housewarming back in November).
Even if boredom is dying, should it? Is there some connection between boredom and creativity? What's the difference between boredom and peacefullness? One man's monesstary is another man's temple of boredom.
Just some thinking on this Saturday morning.
Posted by Nakia at January 7, 2006 11:17 AM