Maria Popova of Brain Pickings
The One You Feed
Kierkegaard's Article on Boredom
Kierkegaard said it's man's destiny to amuse himself. He made a distinction between boredom and idleness, which I think semantically probably doesn't culturally fit with what we're doing. But he had a very different meaning and again it gets back to presence. We sort of flew by this idea of presence and being more important than productivity. And then I think we spiraled out somewhere from there. You could call your own truth bombs, which might be... That has a certain hubris to it, but it is... Or question bombs or... Yours are definitely that.
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