“No one is bored, everything is boring,” the late writer Mark Fisher once wrote. He was talking about how our boredom, “a capacity for absorption,” has been replaced by anxiety — “constant dispersal of attention, which is integral to capitalist cyberspace.” Essentially, we’re so overstimulated that we’re tricked into thinking we need to attend to everything, buy everything, consume everything. But it’s all shit, and the luxury of boredom is a dinosaur. That line of thinking o...
“No one is bored, everything is boring,” the late writer Mark Fisher once wrote. He was talking about how our boredom, “a capacity for absorption,” has been replaced by anxiety — “constant dispersal of attention, which is integral to capitalist cyberspace.” Essentially, we’re so overstimulated that we’re tricked into thinking we need to attend to everything, buy everything, consume everything. But it’s all shit, and the luxury of boredom is a dinosaur. That line of thinking o...
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