Is it any surprise that a society that purposefully instills the tolerance of extended boredom as a core intellectual value is careening toward an automation-driven labor catastrophe with near-zero foresight or preparation?
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I feel elevation of dull reading material is an established academic tradition. For me, it was Steinbeck in middle and high school.
In a way, it’s a credit to Steinbeck that he managed to make literary torture porn so tedious
