Conquering Boredom

Ilexa Yardley
The Circular Theory
2 min readMay 31, 2018

The real ‘issue’ in ‘reality’ is boredom. We have already figured out the rest.

Gaming reality to conquer boredom. (Photo by Martin Sanchez)

Let’s assume everybody already knows everything about everything. It’s easy to prove (otherwise we’d have no ‘arguments’). So where does this get us?

The real ‘issue’ in reality, then, is ‘boredom.’ We’ve already accepted that we can’t get away from the ‘argument.’ 50–50 everything else. So, repetitious boredom is what we have to deal with, explaining why we introduce conflict, all of us, so we can compete, and, eventually, cooperate, to do anything, at all.

It’s all about survival (again, in a 50–50 reality).

Meaning, it doesn’t take much to survive. Any job. Or no job. Survival is easy. You don’t have to be the ‘fittest.’ In fact, you don’t even have to be ‘fit.’ You already know, and, actually, we all know, our destiny is death.

So, the real problem is figuring out what to do with life (when life is, actually, pretty easy, no matter what we do to try to make it complicated).

So, it comes down to dealing with ennui. Existential boredom. The jejune nature of nature. Where everything changes, while we all know, underneath it all, nothing changes. Half-the-time things are ‘awesome.’ The other half not-so-much. But we all ‘get this.’

So we invent ‘games’ to overcome boredom. And this explains war, achievement, all of the problems, all of the solutions, and everything else in nature.

So, again, there it is. Nothing new here. At all.

Overcoming boredom. Main task. All of us.

Conservation of the circle is the core dynamic in nature.

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