Boredom?
New Statesman - Books:
"I was also fascinated to learn that the concept of 'interesting' emerged at roughly the same time. Before 1760, we neither categorised things as being 'boring' nor 'interesting'; they just were. Perhaps the concept of individualism was not sufficiently developed for man to pre-sume to judge one way or the other. For me, however, this splitting mirrors the modern division between 'work' and 'leisure'. "
"I was also fascinated to learn that the concept of 'interesting' emerged at roughly the same time. Before 1760, we neither categorised things as being 'boring' nor 'interesting'; they just were. Perhaps the concept of individualism was not sufficiently developed for man to pre-sume to judge one way or the other. For me, however, this splitting mirrors the modern division between 'work' and 'leisure'. "
posted by Dorkamo | 5:21 PM
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