Man, boredom is just so . . . boring. Or maybe I don't mean boredom, but vapidity. The inability to exert the energy required to actually experience the world and to attempt to interpret the experiences, if only to oneself.
I'm not talking about me, of course. I'm here doing what little I can to at least think and talk about something. Let's take, oh I don't know, Paris Hilton, for instance.
There's the old saw about money not buying happiness, but in Paris's case it apparently can't buy intelligence either, or at least intelligence that actually gets used. Not only is the woman vapid, but she seems to think that everybody should be that way. She actually made a sex video, but I think I'd rather watch someone with an inflatable sex doll than with Paris - more personality.
If you watch the Jay-Walking segments on the Tonight show, you'll see people who are almost unimaginably uninformed. I don't think they're all stupid, but no matter what one's native ability might be, ignorance at some point equals stupidity. If you're stupid, you have no choice. If you're ignorant, at some point you're just too lazy, or bored, or vapid, to do anything about it.
But, like Paris, these people have this attitude of cool, that there must be something wrong with you if you happen to know who the first president of the U.S. was, especially if you un-cool enough to ask them about it. Like, they should know?
Maybe I've just turned into an old fogey. Dude, who cares anyway?
