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The Political Unconscious of Boredom (Part One)

August 23, 2016 Doug Rice
"Look, Dad. This is not a pipe!" 

"Look, Dad. This is not a pipe!" 

Some people are so fearful of becoming bored that they “create” insurance policies against boredom. One such insurance policy is to have more than one window open on their computer while they are working. Such people do exist! They frighten me, but they are “real” actual people, and they live in America! and they move among us. These people work on a word document, perhaps writing a poem, while having two or three website tabs open and ready, in case they begin to drown in boredom. In case the poem fails to rhyme. In case they become bored with their own imagination.

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Tags boredom, doug rice, walter benjamin, bruce springsteen, gift of boredom, boring, spike lee

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