apathy

Boredom used to be a simple negative. From Baudelaire's "worst evil" to "if you're bored, you're boring" to the anti-sleep rhetoric (as if sleep is some kind of null state), being "truly alive" also meant being inspired, on, active, go go going...

Now, in these days of constant, low-level, thoughtless stimulation (and overwhelm), when the go go going feels hectic and scarcity-driven, and inspiration is less joyful and more an expectation, more people are talking about how boredom is/can be an important part of a creative life or process.  

From Indigenous Action youtube channel

No Settler Future, An Anti-Year in Review (sorta)

Join Klee Benally, Chizhii, and Kittie Kuntagion as they close out the colonial calendar year with a raging fire of challenges and agitations that have been at the forefront of anti colonial struggle in 2023.

We ask the questions, “What fights matter the most to you right now?” and more simply, “What’s pissing you off the most these days?”. Then we just go off from there.