Word: boredome
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...Boredom and fanatical politics spur some to take up a pen. But often graffiti is a way to say something of which one might otherwisebe ashamed...
...whining to the contrary, I think the agonies of the thesis may be greatly exaggerated. Sure, it is agonizing writing on a computer for days at a time. Sure, the boredom of organizing notes and typing in quotes makes the thought of sitting through 12 hours of statistics lectures seem tolerable. And there is always a non-thesis writing roommate to play with, or a meal to be lingered at, or an intramural basketball game to lose...
...over those of dictatorship. The bad news is that the combination of market economics and elected government, now breaking out all over, is the best we can do; since we have arrived, we have nowhere else to go. We may end up "secure and self- absorbed," suffering from "the boredom of peace and prosperity," devoid of the "striving spirit" that gives humanity its sense of direction. Homo politicus is on the brink of becoming "the last man" -- the ultimate couch potato, "less than a full human being, an object of contempt...
...same time, he gives short shrift to the spread of Islamic fundamentalism and the resurgence of nationalism, seemingly because neither phenomenon fits his paradoxical thesis that mankind is entering a state of grace and risking terminal boredom. To cope with the awkward fact that the red star still flies over the head of 1.2 billion Chinese, he argues that the Beijing regime no longer qualifies as totalitarian; it "has become just another Asian authoritarian state." This distinction would not impress the victims of Tiananmen...
...many kids drinking themselves into a stupor? Boredom, peer pressure, escape from psychological pain and wanting to feel good are the usual answers. Since most of their parents drink, teenagers tend to think of alcohol as a less threatening drug than cocaine or marijuana. Says White House drug czar Bob Martinez: "Adults often send a message to their kids that this is acceptable behavior. With marijuana, cocaine and heroin, there is no mixed message. With alcohol, there is." To David Anderson, a research professor at George Mason University's Center for Health Promotion, teenagers who indulge in binge drinking "delude...