Pushback against (what seems to me like) an implicit assumption: In all probability, you are not evenly and strategically trading off “bored time” for “entertained time.” You are trading off huge chunks of your non-bored time, not because you lack virtue, but because Youtube “wants” to waste your time. So this is, I think, a dangerous trade to try to make, at least without analyzing it first.
But if this time trades off against staring at the ceiling being bored, then Youtube is making my unproductive relaxation time more enjoyable and entertaining, and there is no problem.
Is there no problem? Sometimes being “bored” lets me focus on what it feels like to be a person, or feel grateful about my life, or just let my thoughts drift. This is pleasant, just like the quoted memory of staring at the ceiling. The sentiment was not “FML, my boring life sucks”, but rather “-------- [relaxation].”
I also used to have thoughts race through my head when I turned in for the night, as if some great dam had broken, now that no distractions were occupying my attention. That seems to happen less now. Which, in turn, seems good.
Anyways—empirically, I have not spend much time bored. So the point seems moot, in that I am not advocating increased “bored” time, but reallocation.
Pushback against (what seems to me like) an implicit assumption: In all probability, you are not evenly and strategically trading off “bored time” for “entertained time.” You are trading off huge chunks of your non-bored time, not because you lack virtue, but because Youtube “wants” to waste your time. So this is, I think, a dangerous trade to try to make, at least without analyzing it first.
Is there no problem? Sometimes being “bored” lets me focus on what it feels like to be a person, or feel grateful about my life, or just let my thoughts drift. This is pleasant, just like the quoted memory of staring at the ceiling. The sentiment was not “FML, my boring life sucks”, but rather “-------- [relaxation].”
I also used to have thoughts race through my head when I turned in for the night, as if some great dam had broken, now that no distractions were occupying my attention. That seems to happen less now. Which, in turn, seems good.
Anyways—empirically, I have not spend much time bored. So the point seems moot, in that I am not advocating increased “bored” time, but reallocation.