Many times I’ve listened to Paolo Sorrentino, the film director, talk about boredom, which he ultimately sees as something positive in human life. A creative act, in the end. I’m not sure I agree. When you are bored, you lose the creative force that generates motivation, or even anxiety. When you are bored, you drift. You float. You remain alive, but with a sense of disgust. At least that’s how it is for me. I am bored, that is, I am disgusted, with this world of lies and emptiness, of cultural emptiness. Ninety-eight percent of what is published, posted, or produced is crap, or at best inane chatter. And because I am bored, I lose the sense of my own existence. I lose the meaning of my everyday life. Of course, this cannot be merely personal. I believe in the Zeitgeist . What I feel and think today is not what I felt or thought twenty years ago, nor what I will feel or think ten years from now. Time changes us, unavoidably. We think, and we are, according to what the esprit du t...
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