Value in boredom

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It is not clear to me that boredom is a state that reduces happiness. It does seem like some amount of boredom is valuable for diffuse thinking and creative insight.

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One can also imagine a world where one is too bored, or too stimulated, and use that to think about what that might mean for the value of each. (It isn’t clear to me).

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Also related to the question of if the internet has impacted our wellbeing, since so much of our expanded amusement has come from there.

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While I suspect that life is better with more amusement, this doesn’t feel obvious by itself. There are accounts of folks in Native American societies fleeing assimilation into Colonial society, while it does not seem many, if any, colonials who assimilated to Native American society attempted to flee (from discussion with john fate faherty). Not to mention the fact that we do think some value in boredom, and more important is our ultimate goal of happiness.

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