Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment by Richard Winter

Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment by Richard Winter

Though we have hundreds of entertainment options today--video games, the Internet, CD and MP3 players, home entertainment centers, sporting events, megamalls, movie theaters, and even robotic toys--Western culture is battling an insidious disease. It's an epidemic of boredom.Intrigued by this "deadness of soul," Richard Winter uses the latest historical, physiological and psychological research to probe the nature, causes and effects of boredom. He explores

• why some people are morelikely to get bored than others
• the indifference and the loss of meaning among youth
• the attraction of extreme sports
• how advertising promotes apathy
• the link between boredom and addictions to violence and pornography

Not satisfied with mere description and analysis, Winter also offers practical ways to counteract boredom by learning to live with passion and wonder. So don't just turn on the TV, surf all the available channels and complain "there's nothing on." Instead, read this book!

Winter, Richard: - Richard Winter was for many years professor of education at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His research was mainly concerned with helping nurses, social workers and teachers to develop more reflective and creative methods of working with each other and with their patients / clients / students. For more than twenty years, he has studied and practised Buddhism and meditation at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre, and he currently teaches meditation at the Buddhist Centre for students of the Cambridge University of the Third Age. His website, giving further details and publications, is www.richardwinter.net [1].
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ISBN 13	9780830823086
ISBN 10	0830823085
Title	Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment
Author	Richard Winter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2002-10-16
Number of pages	160
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