New Cities/New Soviets

January 18, 2006

if not bored...

If you don't want to ever be bored, then either you expect the world to entertain you, or you expect yourself to be constantly amazed by the world.

The first is some obvious, spoiled-brat bullshit, the second (which is the stickier one, for me) is a form of enchantment which; a) still prevents you from engaging conciously with folks, despite the god-is-love joy-all-the-time hippie bullshit; b) breaks, and leaves you with only yourself to blame.

Boredom should also not be confused with blase.

It's like, this is the necessary price of having an active mind -- sometimes you have to wait for errything else to catch up. Be patient without quiescence means learning to love the boredom.

I wish I had had another day or two to write the VV bit (link last post) -- the end is a little succeptible to misreading. What I meant is: stop playing it so cool, cats -- the world is a super messy place and we'll never get anything done if we have to be suave uber alles. Boredom is a good self-explaination for some of the rough patches. (Less so for others) At least you're not terrified or in pain.

Posted by Sam at January 18, 2006 09:32 AM

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