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The Not-Boring Truth About Boredom

Build For Tomorrow

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Is the Smart Phone the Enemy of Boredom?

The smart phone has made it ally impossible to be bored. It's almost like adam and eve eat the apple and get kicked out of the garden of eden. And we picked up an eephone and got kicked out of boredom. If these critics are correct, and boredom is something natural and good, then the desire to avoid boredom would be unnatural. But did human beings ever really want to be bored? Before smart phones, in the internet, did people just sit around contentedly being bored, like a cow standing in a field? Do they enjoy boredom? Do they not try to avoid it? And you know who can begin to answer this question? It is wadida.

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