Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

 --- Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > At a wild guess, boredom might require the combination of free time
> > and the idea that one ought to be productive all the time -
> > something most likely to be found in industrial societies. But I
> > want more evidence that the concept of boredom is unknown in
> > pre-industrial societies before I quite believe that.
>
> You are bored if you do not get to perform any activity that interests
> you. In a modern society, there can be many reasons for that --- lack
> of money, lack of time, lack of access, lack of knowledge, lack of
> capability. Many of these didn't apply in earlier societies.
That is strange. I would expect that rather the opposite were true: that with
our TV, computers etc. boredom would be near to extinct.
Or could it be that the redundancy of everything makes us bored?

Jan



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