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“Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.”
“A utopia cannot, by denition, include boredom, but the utopia we are living in is boring.”
“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.”
“Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.”
“For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.”
“Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superuous, and we lose...”
“In order to live a meaningful life,humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These answers do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words do...”
“One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.”
