Community

(ethics, politics, design)
Steve McFarland is a divinity student in social ethics in New York City. Community is his journal of ethics, politics, and design. It's a place to play around with the intersections of these topics in the urban context, and to store other bits and bobbles.

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  • January 6, 2009 10:12 pm

    The Joy of Boredom

    From NPR’s (fantastic and soon to be late lamented) Day to Day, Carolyn Johnson delivers this line so straight, you’re not sure the guest host knows what’s happening:

    When you’re in a state of complete restlessness you’re driven to… contemplate a larger problem, you might think of a loved one or feel some universal human feelings like homesickness, uncertainty… and it might also drive you to create something new that you couldn’t find on your cellphone or iPod just out of the pure drudgery of the moment.