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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Last Man Who Was Bored
A Memorial Service for Boredom (Born 10,000 BC. Died 2007.)
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P34820389
EAN: 9798185919101
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Zustellung: Di, 29.09.2026
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CHF 21.40
Beschreibung
Boredom is dead. This is its funeral. The Last Man Who Was Bored. is a memorial service for a state of mind that shaped every great idea, invention, and afternoon nap in human history - and that we quietly murdered somewhere around 2007, when a man in a black turtleneck held up a small rectangle of glass and the audience applauded. Part eulogy, part cultural autopsy, part comedy - this book moves through the official program of Boredom's service: a coroner's report on cause of death (the Smartphone, the Infinite Scroll, the Algorithm, and the Notification - none of whom expressed remorse), remembrances from a San Francisco bus driver who watched the window-staring stop in 2012, a Minnesota grandmother who found the whole situation baffling, and a man on a porch whose name nobody got. What we lost wasn't the restlessness or the clock-watching. It was the Default Mode Network running unsupervised. It was Isaac Newton in the orchard. It was the thought that arrived at 2 AM when you finally ran out of things to scroll through. The service will last as long as it takes. Please silence your phones. If you find this difficult - if your hand has already moved toward your pocket since you read that sentence - you are, in fact, the reason we are here.