My Own System of Boredom

• Boredom is essential. There is no learning without boredom. If you have a lesson in anything it can't be 100% fun if it is to teach you deeply. Go this way and you'll end up like the Americans and youtube: "funny videos" or acceptable length and "videos about someone talking about something that's interesting" now rarely stray beyond a minute-and-a-half of fast talking, like so many salesmen or "batteries-no-included" speech, even cut up for economy. • Now that I learn for myself I find my self putting myself through long talks which dull my craving for entertainment but thrill my learning brain. And it's every even terribly inefficient, for every two hours come five minutes of absolute truth, in a hundred pages two golden paragraphs, and this makes it all worth it. • I look at entertainment with suspicion. A friend recommends me a wonderful timesink and I recoil, like from a bad drug, I know how weak we humans are. I cut it short if I'm seeing something entertaining like falling cats, because I'm feeling that no edification is going on, and even maybe a fear of submitting to this mass distraction. I have never felt so much before that schooling is the most useless activity ever, people can not learn this way, no one ever has. But worse. Schooling has usurped the necessary sacrifice of boredom in the name of knowledge without giving any knowledge in return! Fooling us into running away from knowledge as we logically would from abject boredom. People would do anything not to be bored. But it doesn't have to be so, we don't need to keep stupefying our selves, shortening and shortening out attention span second by second. We can burn the schools!