The Return of Boredom
We should count ourselves lucky—for most of human history, boredom was a luxury only a few could afford.
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Now that Donald Trump seems to have disappeared, Americans are finding that they can focus their attention on other things. In a quite literal sense, this is liberating. I suspect the meteoric rise of Clubhouse is in part a product of a Trump-less world. People happen to have more time on their hands when they're not obsessing over Trump. It could just …
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