All this excess of information, games, shows and everything else is ruining our boredom, which is usually what leads us to think more creatively

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We're kinda spoiled with "all the X we could want, whenever we want".

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I think we're just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our "interest threshold" such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.