Word: boredomization
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...unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...While boredom is not as widespread a phenomenon, it is at an all-time high. The number of respondents sleeping through class surged to a record high (34.5 percent), as many others reported being bored with those classes they managed to get to as well (36 percent). These first-years rarely discuss politics, do not think that keeping up with the news is important, and are less interested in racial and environmental issues than their predecessors...
What are we to make of these findings? Are they symptomatic of a pervasive boredom and selfishness? The social scientists cited have little to offer in the way of serious explanation. Assuming these results are linked to broad social causes, but finding none, they blame television, as usual. The argument, which we have heard again and again, is that television, with all its advertising and flashy imagery, has made us materialistic while simultaneously whittling down our attention spans...
Part of the problem with this explanation is that it takes aim at the wrong sort of boredom and ambition. The results of the poll make the college first-year into an existential reincarnation of the company man. He is committed to working for a good living, but he is bored with life, refusing to study its ins and outs...
...blame for the students impatience and boredom? On the one hand, we cannot fault colleges for being committed to abstract learning. On the other hand, we cannot blame students for knowing that there is more to life than what is being taught in college classrooms. It is even harder to blame them if their parents, the college students of the 60s, managed to communicate these values to them. The particular boredom and family-oriented ambition of today's college students is a quieter and more relaxed version of 60s discontent with book-learning. It would be a mistake to interpret...