From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 11:46:56 MDT
Eugene:
Please note that when you are faced with long-term unemployment (unplanned
also) as happend to many people, before and after 9-11, boredom sucumbs to
maslow's hierarchy of needs. One is less discontent with grub-work, if the
alternative is being on the dole,. Funny how that alters perception, albeit
NOT for all. Many people of intellect were bored during the 1930's
depression, even if they were lucky enough to have jobs--but not the
majority, at least not until X crossed Y in their perceptions, and they
became..bored.
Eugene Leitl Quoted:
The trend-watchers at the Yankelovich Monitor, an annual study of
consumers, actually declared a ''boredom boom'' a couple of years ago:
''Boredom . . . is a call to action. It fuels resentment toward businesses
that flood the market with boring options.'' Now, however, Yankelovich says
that all this boredom has faded a bit, although it is not entirely clear
why. Are we more stimulated than before, or just more easily satisfied?
Perhaps we're bored with boredom itself. Just days after that news story
topped the most-e-mailed list, it had fallen completely off the charts. You
could almost imagine the thousands of creative information workers, peering
through the day's torpor at their computer monitors, clicking and scrolling
and asking, ''What else have you got?''
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