Boredom: a new kind of Luxury
Look around and see what you notice. Who’s missing who or who’s looking for whom. Today feels like all you want and all you know is the time spent looking at your phone. The lights go down, you sign in and sign out. Flip flopping through what you think is a way out of your brain. It’s all a trap. When did it get this way? A reflexive pull that once brought joy and now like a junkie, you spend all your time looking at your phone. You don’t notice the sun went down, losing consciousness with every scroll. Walking down the street watching every other person spending time scrolling on their phones. You pull the curtain back to find what? You never have the time, or did you ever really if you spent every moment looking at your phone.
Lose yourself to nothing, passing faces on the feed and pretending being on your phone is your choice. Never let it die, never let it be, because every second spent on your phone surpasses the seconds you allow a thought to cross your mind. A phone now replacing a binkie. The inability to form a thought on your own because you don’t allow for a second of silence or boredom to strike you. Boredom now a luxury the escapists won’t dare to have, Because how much more interesting could my thoughts be than a day in the life?
We lose ourselves to the void, in that we exchange our own thoughts for crumbs of dopamine. How can you allow for a creative idea to pass if half of the content you consume is a shitty take on a trend that has now since been beat to the ground. It’s easy to be something in a world where we consume more than we create. Because if all we’re programmed to do is consume, doing the opposite means something. It carries weight. Creation requires something consumption doesn’t: attention. The ability to sit with an idea long enough for it to become your own. Boredom is where our observations come to life, when we connect ideas.
The loss of attention doesn’t just affect us individually. It affects culture. It used to be that we gathered inspiration or information on the latest trends by people who had the capacity to make correlations between the population, trends and changes in music.A drive without music, starring out the window instead of reaching for a screen once felt ordinary. Now, virtually impossible. We have 3,000 followers and that somehow means you’re important enough to state some bland take and suddenly it’s taken as fact. Like some weird black mirror episode your digital footprint now saying who you are before you’ve opened your mouth. Reputations used to be predicated by what was published, now it’s in the hands of the masses that breaks the wall between trends, people, and trend hierarchy. Physical medias and physical media adjacents (us) have died along with any morale to produce quality work that means something. All to appease the people who spent all their time looking at their phone.
Every system creates its own counterculture. Saturation creates scarcity. When everyone is consuming, the people creating become valuable again. Those capable of sitting with their thoughts long enough to create something new become increasingly rare. The next cultural renaissance will belong to the people who remembered how to be bored. The ushering of a 21st century renaissance era that shifts focus from the rigid turn over of falsified dogma, centering instead on the potential of the human mind, the value of the individual, our brains and the study of human connection. be careful, you just might miss it because you will never find the time if you spend every second looking at your phone.
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