It wasn't long ago that I realized I don't need to impress anyone, And there is nowhere to go. * Boredom is the impediment to these realizations. * All my life it had been backgrounding my experience, An amalgam of disgust, and anger, And underneath it all, A sadness which wished to ask, "Is there… Continue reading Boredom
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“Are you not entertained?”: boredom, silence, age, and youth
Teaching high school these days, I am often reminded of Maximus from Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, imploring the crowd, “Are you not entertained?” I scan my students’ bored, simultaneously hopeful faces, and I want to tell them: as you turn older, your lives will become both more boring, but paradoxically more pleasurable; that’s if you’re lucky!… Continue reading “Are you not entertained?”: boredom, silence, age, and youth
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 