I wonder if any forumers have experienced a mix of boredom and anxiety? Perhaps anxiety is the wrong term, dread maybe?
I've been looking into how to conceptualise this feeling and whether or not there's been much writing on it, I'm not sure its exactly the same as Satre's ideas about nausea, Camus' absurdity or N's optimistic nihilism, neither am I sure that anomie or alienation cut it either, the closest I think perhaps are some ideas from economics about marginal opportunity costs, I think I'm using the right terms there but not entirely sure, when you are paralysed from making a decision because doing so involves the automatic cost of the choice you did not make.
That's not the whole picture either but you know.
You could be bored but can not settle or relax with anything distracting, such as reading, because of the dread but then are doomed to experience the boredom.
I've been looking into how to conceptualise this feeling and whether or not there's been much writing on it, I'm not sure its exactly the same as Satre's ideas about nausea, Camus' absurdity or N's optimistic nihilism, neither am I sure that anomie or alienation cut it either, the closest I think perhaps are some ideas from economics about marginal opportunity costs, I think I'm using the right terms there but not entirely sure, when you are paralysed from making a decision because doing so involves the automatic cost of the choice you did not make.
That's not the whole picture either but you know.
You could be bored but can not settle or relax with anything distracting, such as reading, because of the dread but then are doomed to experience the boredom.