Boredom

Schopenhauer described boredom as “a tame longing without any particular object,” Dostoevsky as “ a bestial and indefinable affliction,” and poet Joseph Brodsky as “time’s invasion of your world system.”
Unsurprisingly, not many can describe boredom even though most have felt it, and it is one of the central preoccupations of the age.
The most current definition comes from John Eastwood in Toronto: Drawing from research across many areas of psychological science and neuroscience, Eastwood and colleagues define boredom as “an aversive state of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity,” which arises from failures in one of the brain’s attention networks.
Interestingly, people who investigate boredom, find it thus: “Boredom is a blast! To a curious and creative scholar, nothing is ever too trivial.”(Maureen Corrigan re Patricia Meyer Spacks’ book of that name) And, “Peter Toohey “finds a perverse kind of glee in his subject.” (Daily Telegraph) Curiously the subject seems to ingivorate those who study it.
We hope that this roundtable will, in bringing together scholars from literature, psychiatry, neurology, cultural history, and the law who have thought deeply about the subject, continue the exploration of the meaning and characteristics of boredom, and in so doing give the audience a chance to enlarge their own ideas.

[raphaelyasunori]

I haven't been bored ever since I AWAKENED. I didn't even realized how WE THE PEOPLE had been asleep walking in the pursuit of dead trees(paper) it doesn't even produce oxygen. Money isn't gonna help anyone find it's true purpose in y they had chose to incarnate in this time. I rather sleep wen I die and bury me face down so the whole world can kiss my ass goodbye. Unfortunately it has to be in order for ppl realize wat they could of known until it's gone. Sumtimes ppl gotta do the most rediculous stupidly insane actions brightly as loudest they can to REALIZE THE Truest importance in wats not being really REALIZED. I HAVENT BEEN BORED IN OVER FOUR YRS. IF SUM1 DISCOVER SUMTHING THAT BEEN THOUGHT TO EVERYONE IS IMPOSSIBLE WUD U GIVE URSELF THE CHANCE SEE IF HOW ITS POSSIBLE, OR WUD U WASTE UR TYM TRYNA PROVE SUMTHING THATS ALREADY BEEN THOUGHT TO EVERYONE ITS ALREADY PROVEN WRONG ONLY TO NOT REALIZE AFTER THE ARGUMENT THEY HAD STILL GAINED NOTHING???....??? SO Y EVEN WASTE UR TYM PROVING ANYTHING OR EVERYTHING WRONG ???? IF SUM1 HAD DISCOVERED SUMTHING GIVES U ACCESS TO ALLLL KNOWLEDGE EVEN LOST ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE, IT WUD BE INCREDIBLY HARD TO BELIEVE. BUT THIS ACCESSABILITY GAVE YOU INFORMATION THIRY YRS BEFORE the twin towers go down. But then 30 yr later September 11, 2001 the twins goes down I tink that information has sum validity. If that accessability of all knowledge tells u there is a hall of records underneath the spinxn in Egypt then sumone happens to put a team together to see if the I'm formation is true then they go there n there in fact was a hall of records underneath the spinx I think where ever the information is coming from has sum great validational facts.