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The HBS hosts discuss the many paradoxes of ennui.\xa0

Most of our podcast episodes are about \u201cbig\u201d issues, \u201cinteresting\u201d topics, \u201cprovocative\u201d conversations, or \u201cimportant\u201d matters\u2026 but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of our day-to-day lives is dominated by ennui. Boredom. Tedium. Lethargy. Lassitude. Or, in more common parlance, \u201cthe blahs.\u201d

Voltaire famously claimed (in The Prodigal Son) \u201call genres are allowed, except the boring genre." It\u2019s easy to see why this is the case for artistic works of fiction, but it also seems to have been true for topics of philosophical reflection as well. Given that boredom is such a ubiquitous part of our human experience, why don\u2019t we have a better theory of it?

The curious thing about reflecting on the topic of \u201cboredom\u201d is, of course, that the very act of reflecting upon it makes it \u201cinteresting.\u201d To wit, is it even possible to reflect on the experience of boredom as such?

Full episode notes available at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-129-boredom

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