Boredom

I am finding myself spending way too much time on the Net again. Sorry, no hurdy-gurdy video downloads, though. No social networking. No games. No streaming media. I'm on the damned Web browser, just wasting precious time. Yet, the question remains: What alternatives do I have in the "no trespassing" empire of "freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?

Typical Existential Hottie

As I have stated many times, boredom is a modern invention. Boredom didn't exist until the word was coined. Now boredom is universal. Call it ennui, existential vacuum, or whatever ... boredom is boring. Technically, I am not bored. However, I am gradually being drawn into the gauntlet of boredom by the feeble constructs of modern culture (term used loosely).

The "ownership society" has forced us into pathetic conclaves that barely suffice as refuge. We must perform our actual "living" functions in miniature mausoleums, sarcophaguses, tombs as it were. As empire moves further into "inverted totalitarianism" and surveillance becomes ubiquitous, the powerless peons must sequester themselves in what basically amounts to a funeral home. The only conduit to the outside world is the Net. However, the devices used to access the latter have betrayed us.

I really don't know. Perhaps homelessness, true homelessness (i.e., unsheltered), may be the only way out. Yet, I have been told by my homeless sources that being homeless on the streets is extremely dangerous. There are bands of Micronesians, African-Americans, and White-Americans traveling in groups of three. They are robbing the homeless when they are asleep. If the victim awakens during the robbery, he is battered with various crude weapons. A few anonymous homeless have ended up in a real tomb as a result.

Oddly, I am not at all bored when I am out and about during the day. Boredom is only prevalent when I am sitting in my squalid room at Slob Manor (read: rental housing) or loitering around the den of consumerism (read: shopping mall) in Kahala in the evenings.

Little wonder why people spend so much money on gadgets, entertainment appliances, or accoutrements for their tiny mausoleums. Little wonder why people spend so much time in the kitchen like the idiotic "chef" of Slob Manor fame and consume 5,000 or more calories of food per day. Yeah, the "chef" does eat four or five full (completely organic) meals every day. Boredom knows no bounds.

Update. The "chef" is clinically insane. I've monitored his time in the kitchen when I am actually at Slob Manor. Six hours on wage slave days. Weekends, holidays, and vacations? Seven to eight hours, or more. All meals are complete, so his caloric intake is 6,000 upward daily. He spends a lot of time researching "holistic" cures and remedies on the Net. So, he's constantly conjuring up new concoctions. He on a ginger root kick now. He showed me about six pounds of ginger root that he purchased at a local farmer's market. Naturally, he's still a "conspiracy" nut of the worst kind. The more absurd, the more he believes.