One of my favorite teenage pop bands, the Pet Shop Boys, sang: ‘Cause we were never being boringWe had too much time to find for ourselvesAnd we were never being boringWe were never being bored … Well, it remains a debate if ‘being boring’ is OK or not, but ‘being bored’ is certainly recommendable! Most…
Tag: Autonomy
Book review: The high price of materialism
“Excessive consumption is usually the last refuge for those people, who live a tedious life and they don’t even have hope that it will be better someday. The accumulation of material wealth is a self-expression for those who have no other means to express their decisions, having their lives in their own hands and being…