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Yeah but maybe a bit of our problem is people don't get bored anymore. The feeling of boredom is an important one and we stuff it down with dopamine doping and doom scrolling. When I was a child, if I got bored I went outside, or I saw if my friend could play, or I got a toy out. Once smart phones came along suddenly being bored was just an invitation for Reddit— Lemmy— to fill in the void.
I'm glad that Lemmy is not as addictive as Reddit was. I want to be bored a bit sometimes. Boredom makes me do chores instead of ignore them. Or play with my kid more. Or go hiking.
I don't imagine 80s kids would have said they had boring childhoods, just because they weren't completely soaked up with phones demanding their attention 24/7.
My childhood wasn't boring, but I was bored an awful lot. And I agree, boredom can be a great motivator. But I can't say that I miss being bored.
This. It destroys real life community and severs local bonds between people. It makes one ungrounded.
I think nobody would really say their childhood was boring. But if you were to take a kid from the 80s and a kid today and compare their daily lives, regardless of what interests they have, the 80s kid would find their own life pale in comparison. You've got video games, movies, social media, news, books, and music on the entertainment front. There's so many paths to express one's creativity, whether in art, music, engineering, film. And of course nothing is really stopping you from doing anything you could do 30 years ago and doing it today.