Boredom's Role in Our Daily Lives

Everything that we want is in reach of our hands. Whether that may be the optimized pleasures of either sense of hearing or taste, we have it all. Things weren’t always like this. Such a wide range of accessibility to pleasures was not common even fifty years ago.

But especially when profits-driven corporations realize that we can hack the human mind through spending millions of dollars making refined trial-and-error products to scratch those exact itches we crave, whether that’s junk food or a video game, things start to make perfect sense.

The sudden spike in the variety of pleasures and its decimal optimization sounds good to many since it’s all but a transactional exchange between a product and our money.

This way of thinking isn’t wrong in theory but with how invasive things are and with how common they are, even with the smallest toolkit, things start getting messier.

Naval Ravikant said, “In an age of abundance, pursuing pleasure for its own sake creates addiction.”

It’s just true because the world we live in today is different. Everything is in abundance so we have a mismatch of natural and artificial desires causing us addictions which we clearly don’t want nor need to any meaningful degree.

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