It is a high-speed, low-friction fatigue. Clinically, we might call it anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure), but colloquially, it’s the "doomscroll." You aren’t bored because the world is quiet. You are bored because the world is screaming, and you have become immune to the volume.
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We have a boredom problem. But it’s not the boredom your grandparents knew.
The truth is the opposite. Real boredom—the old, slow, analog kind—is a superpower. It is the mind's idle time, the soil where the seeds of "what if" and "I remember" and "maybe I'll try" are buried.