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The issue of boredom has been worrying humanity since ancient times.\u00a0The warriors of the Homeric deeds suffered from it in the periods between battles.\u00a0Plato was afraid of being boring to others, as his teacher was rumored to be.\u00a0Seneca tortured himself thinking about the possibility that boredom would unleash a wave of suicides among the Romans.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Desert Fathers<\/a>\u00a0were horrified by the expectation that monks, jaded at the sixth hour of the day, would neglect contemplative duties, and those of the Church were afraid that boredom would turn men of faith from the path of Christian virtue. .\u00a0Scholastics like\u00a0Saint Thomas<\/a>\u00a0believed that boredom could cause infinite sadness in the soul.<\/p>\n Calvinism warned that when boredom appeared, the absence of divine grace was revealed.\u00a0The enlightened, later, thought that those who were bored were wasting time.\u00a0At the height of the 19th century, the European aristocracy regarded it as the\u00a0mal du si\u00e8cle<\/em>\u00a0, and, at the beginning of the last century, it became a widespread lament within the factory walls.<\/p>\n For a few decades, moreover, mental health experts have been highlighting its pathological side, and proposing therapies against an evil that has been commonplace throughout Western history.\u00a0The great punishment that the gods sent us for their amusement!<\/p>\n It is not a topical issue;\u00a0we are not bored now more than before.\u00a0On the contrary, in these times, we have the largest offer of entertainment to avoid boredom that has ever been known.\u00a0One so broad that it overwhelms us, and before which, often, we let an algorithm decide for us how to fill the time so as not to waste it thinking about what it is that we really want.<\/p>\n It is true, however, that in the 21st century we have more means to express ourselves about their experience, and we take advantage of them to share our misery in search of comfort.\u00a0Anyone can write a blog post about boredom or use social media to make their discomfort known.<\/p>\n The curious thing is that the abundant complaints that we attend today do not seek to denounce how annoying or how dangerous it is to fall into their clutches, as was done in the past.\u00a0Instead, they are built on the longing for more time to be bored.\u00a0We have no time for boredom.<\/p>\nAre we more bored than before?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
A shared malaise<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Mismatch between needs and stimuli<\/strong><\/h4>\n