Ah ha! I knew the boredom string I began a few months ago would reappear!
Question: For those who believe, as the previous poster did, that
western/modern/pomo life is "certainly not boring", is it because one never
LETS it become so? I.e., that one is continually busying themselves and are
therefore so attached to the world of distraction that they believe Reality to
be "chaotic, heterogenuous and liquid"? Let's bring it back to film:
culturally, a boring film is something to be avoided. Why? Because film is
equated with the culture of distraction, and its mortal enemy is boredom.
Certainly there is an opposing film "culture", the canonized culture of films
which "are good for us" even though they might be "boring".
But what if the film experience ceased to be equated with culture altogther?
What if boredom ceased to be something to fear, but something that first has to
be understood, experienced, known? What is boredom except the grip of empty
time? What if film allowed us to experience time as somehow "empty"? What seems
as first to be boring might reverse itself and instead become the most powerful
of experinces, an experience which has little to do with what we consider as
anti-boredom (distraction) or "good for us" boredom (culture).
Glen
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