78. Boredom

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Episode 78.
One must imagine Sisyphus…bored. Take a break from boredom and listen to episode 78 of Overthink as David and Ellie guide you through the fabulously idle realm of this “bestial, undefinable affliction.” They discuss the peaceful highs and painful lows of their middle school summer slumps, the endless days of pandemic panic, and the sluggish mornings of monks during the Medieval period. What can boredom teach us about existence? Is Kierkegaard right that the masses are boring while the nobles bore themselves? Can 9-year-olds be existentially bored? Maybe all we need to overcome boredom is a little bit of fun, perhaps a holiday. Or is it?
Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.
Works Discussed
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Andreas Elpidorou, Boredom and Poverty
Evagrius, Of the Eight Capital Sins
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Pascal, Pensées
Lars Svensen, A Philosophy of Boredom
Michel de Montaigne, Of Sorrow
The Twilight Zone
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@adibzadeh Год назад

It's a little surprising you guys didn't mention David Foster Wallace in this episode. He did a great deal of work on this subject. His work may not be categorized as hard-core philosophy, but I think he was onto something as well.

@ReynaSingh Год назад

Great episode

@jeighjeighfitzgerald4235 Год назад

I'm a sensitive bored and privileged white man... I read catcher In the Rye... I think we all know where this is going

@viniciusrmarchesin Год назад

26:19 I believe Kant is referring to work as teleological positing, action idealized and acted upon intentionally by the self

@cosmobilling1749 Год назад

Interesting episode! Relating to poverty and boredom, I think what y'all we're talking about concerning the necessity of wasting time with mundane chores such as laundry or dishwashing pairs up nicely with (my understanding of) Foucault's theory of bureaucracy, wherein its function is to make the interaction with it as bothersome (and boring!) as possible, and if we take the traditional saying in economics that "it is expensive to be poor," I would add to that that it is expensive both in terms of money, and time. Additionally, I loved the Kierkegaard quote! The part on Renaissance melancholia and boredom actually made me think of Kierkegaard's seducer from Either/Or, and the way his aesthetic form of living is criticised widely for its aesthetic solutions to the more substantial, essential, problem to the Seducer of boredom (which he addresses by picking up "hobbies" and studying them extensively for short bursts).

@Alex0Hamilton Год назад

Another really good episode. I guess I must be a supporter of the notion of a "universal income” e.g. paying a small wage to everyone as a social right so we can all get on with the real job ,of having a job, and contributing something to society. In the light of this episode where you refer to Kierkegaard' “plebeians they are boring, in the sense they bore other people, they don't seem particularly interesting, but the nobles are even worse because they bore themselves” and other things you touched on, etc,-do you have any thoughts on “universal income’ you would like to do an episode on?

@OverthinkPodcastPhilosophy Год назад

Thanks for this idea! It's actually a topic we have on our (very long) episode ideas list, so we are thinking about doing on on it :) Our Productivity episode, while not discussing UBI directly, also gets into some of the ideas around our views on work and compensation

@inkompetenzkompensationsko4188 Год назад

I think i relate to the primates in the experiment😅

@sensor.mellow Год назад

😌

@BitterDawn Год назад

I think in regards to mundane activities like chores that it's up to us on how boring things are. When I go to laundromat each week I bring a sketchbook and sit in my car and listen to music or discussions, or go grocery shopping to be efficient with my time - dishes too, music or talks, plus these times are good times to reflect and explore inside.

@kamalpreetsingh1686 Год назад

I am feeling boredom from many years......

@ducanhvu9658 Год назад

this is so wise and insightful

@5chq Месяц назад

ironically boredom is interesting

@BillyMcBride Год назад

You both always do such a great service that means a lot to me. I am grateful for the whole episode as well as its ending on a note that we need to help our communities relieve boredom to make the world better. I don't have much to add except that I remember the literary critic, Harold Bloom saying that Frederich Nietzsche's character, Zarathustra is a "sublime bore." I think about why he said so. If Zarathustra, proclaiming God is dead, hails the Superman (ubermensch), does that mean that his high-falutin proclaiming of future sorts of people makes Zarathustra boring? I think Nietzsche got that way of future-person inventing from Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom he read, who spoke of the Central Man (or Woman) of the future, and who also prophesied that every American coming would be a Poet. Yet, Emerson is no bore. Marcel Proust also, I remember, has many bores as characters in =In Search of Lost Time=, but unlike Nietzsche, he meant to write them "as" bores. Nietzsche didn't intend Zarathustra to be one, so that makes for a parody. Thank you again for your gifts! 🎉