{"id":304,"date":"2019-08-14T14:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=304"},"modified":"2019-10-17T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T18:34:39","slug":"the-deadly-boredom-of-a-meaningless-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2019\/08\/14\/the-deadly-boredom-of-a-meaningless-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deadly Boredom of \u2018A Meaningless Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/08\/07\/the-deadly-boredom-of-a-meaningless-life\/\">The Deadly Boredom of \u2018A Meaningless Life\u2019 &#8211; Quillette<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is one reason why so many people now feel unmoored. As Canadian science fiction writer Donald Kingsbury eloquently put it in his novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Courtship-Rite-Donald-Kingsbury\/dp\/1511397799\"><em>Courtship Rite<\/em><\/a>, \u201cTradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/students-selling-notes-part-2\/\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deadly Boredom of \u2018A Meaningless Life\u2019 &#8211; Quillette This is one reason why so many people now feel unmoored. As Canadian science fiction writer Donald Kingsbury eloquently put it in his novel Courtship Rite, \u201cTradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}