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“The #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people don’t read any more, understood #attention better than most.” Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.

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David Ing Apr 5, 2020

A young man stares out a window and the caption reads “Bus windows: the ultimate philosophy school.” writes #MarkKingwell

All the canonical philosophers of boredom have believed that boredom was eventually edifying – a painful experience that, like mortality itself, educates and enhances the mind. Because we’re all addicts of our own desires for stimulation, the therapy here may be hard. There may be withdrawal, and the DSM and medical models of clinical addiction won’t help. This is philosophical work.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-in-coronavirus-quarantine-use-boredom-as-a-window-to-wisdom/

Opinion: In coronavirus quarantine, use boredom as a window to wisdom

If you have the good fortune to feel ennui instead of anxiety right now, do what the philosophers do: Seize the opportunity to look within