9/16/2023 0 Comments SupersecretlinkAnd the seed for it is increasingly planted in childhood - in an age when play is increasingly equated with screens and interfaces, being alone with a screen is not quite being alone at all, so the art of taking joy in one’s own company slips further and further out of reach. Perhaps we understand this intellectually, but we - now more than ever, it seems - have a profound civilizational anxiety about being alone. The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has written beautifully about why the capacity for boredom is essential for a full life and Susan Sontag contemplated the creative purpose of boredom.
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