The Year in Boredom

Boredom is none too dull, despite Toohey's occasional attempt to give his subject a mimetic treatment. For instance, he takes the position that boredom is, like disgust, an adaptive emotion designed to warn us away from poisonous situations. Thus, on Page 15, he writes, "disgust is an inherent aspect of the boredom brought on by predictability and repetition." And later he writes that boredom "protects us in the same way that disgust does." And later he writes, "disgust and simple boredom both keep people clear of toxins." And later he writes, "Boredom, as has been seen, is an emotion connected to the primary emotion of disgust." And later he writes that boredom, "like disgust" is "an adaptive emotion." And so on, ad nauseam.

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