I think in a country when we have it as easy as we do, one of our big dread vectors is boredom. I think little edges of despair and soul-level boredom appear in things like homework or particularly dry classroom stuff. I can remember the incredible soaring relief of when certain teachers would say we were going to watch a movie in grade school and it wasn't just a hedonistic "oh, we're going to have fun"; it was a relief from some terrible burden.
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David Foster Wallace quote from "The Soul is Not a Smithy"
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That's so true. I never really enjoyed the movies we were shown in school, but watching them did represent a deescalation of the never-ending psychic violation that is the school experience.