Wittgenstein notes there could be no first-person present tense of 'to believe falsely'; it occurs to me this is also true of 'to remember boredom'. Unlike sadness/happiness, you can remember 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 you were bored, or 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 you were bored, but not the boredom itself.
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If we can't remember as adults, between childhood amnesia & boredom vanishing, how miserable school was, or how stultifying everyday life can be, perhaps the sheer amount of time spent on smartphones should not surprise us so much as reveal how selective our memories are.
4:28 PM - 19 Sep 2018
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