Boredom depends on the intellectual base you have in those people who feel it. Smarter people find ways to fill that boredom with substance, people with average to beyond average intelligence usually lack the creativity to use it in a productive way. They tend to take simple destruction without a purpose as their way to fill that boredom.
I think America is very extreme in this, being obsessed with celebrities and gossip and actual trivialitites. But since Facebook and social media became popular for a wider audience, I think other areas catch up on that. For here, I dare say it is the case. Even though I don't want to claim it wasn't like this before in any way too. (If that was so, RTL and BILD newspaper had never survived until today...)
Well, a thing to regard in this matter, I think, is: For which side of the former inner German border you wanna have the piece of information?
As I perceive things - West Germany is the more Americanized part which tends to get obsessed with media, scandal and trivial stories way more than East Germany. In political things, I feel that coming through even stronger. For a West German to make the conclusion "our whole system is fucked up" is less likely to happen that for someone who's been born and raised in the East, for example. I don't know what to reason it with exactly... I guess the main part in this is: Because they're missing the basic idea in their mindset that the world, as they know them, can also disappear from one to the other day and become totally meaningless. And technically, for West Germany this even didn't really happen even after WWII. The post-Reich-state West Germany saw Nazis in government positions again right after the war (installed by the US, just for the note), let the guilt and atonement for its crimes disappear under the carpet (except for the bigger and more famous crimes that couldn't be denied), and in the depth of its state structure, law structures as well as structures in thought of the people who worked in it, not that much of the former Nazi state disappeared. Most people from West Germany surely aren't aware of that, but I think you notice that even though in some very deep-lying points on a subtle level...
One of that is this thing "not getting upon the idea to not only get rid of certain politicians, but putting a whole system into question". Which, on a subtle level, requires the precondition "I don't think we're that much on the wrong track here" - maybe also leading to the fact that Westerners in general have a problem to draw the conclusion of systematic patterns instead of just "seeing it as single independent cases" (and if they do it, then they do it with things religiously and see patterns under mostly emotional viewpoints). Well... and what would you expect in awareness from that? Not much, I think.
And I feel like noticing that in conversations about politics, when people are from West Germany. Even I! Although I cannot even build up an identity as a "citizen of the GDR" because I'm too young to know what that would mean in its full extent (and neither would want to). I'm only sensitive to structures and patterns, respectively have an eye for it. I do not see these things with resentment...
Smarter people find ways to fill that boredom with substance, people with average to beyond average intelligence usually lack the creativity to use it in a productive way. They tend to take simple destruction without a purpose as their way to fill that boredom.
I think America is very extreme in this, being obsessed with celebrities and gossip and actual trivialitites.
But since Facebook and social media became popular for a wider audience, I think other areas catch up on that.
For here, I dare say it is the case. Even though I don't want to claim it wasn't like this before in any way too. (If that was so, RTL and BILD newspaper had never survived until today...)
Well, a thing to regard in this matter, I think, is: For which side of the former inner German border you wanna have the piece of information?
As I perceive things - West Germany is the more Americanized part which tends to get obsessed with media, scandal and trivial stories way more than East Germany. In political things, I feel that coming through even stronger.
For a West German to make the conclusion "our whole system is fucked up" is less likely to happen that for someone who's been born and raised in the East, for example.
I don't know what to reason it with exactly... I guess the main part in this is: Because they're missing the basic idea in their mindset that the world, as they know them, can also disappear from one to the other day and become totally meaningless.
And technically, for West Germany this even didn't really happen even after WWII.
The post-Reich-state West Germany saw Nazis in government positions again right after the war (installed by the US, just for the note), let the guilt and atonement for its crimes disappear under the carpet (except for the bigger and more famous crimes that couldn't be denied), and in the depth of its state structure, law structures as well as structures in thought of the people who worked in it, not that much of the former Nazi state disappeared.
Most people from West Germany surely aren't aware of that, but I think you notice that even though in some very deep-lying points on a subtle level...
One of that is this thing "not getting upon the idea to not only get rid of certain politicians, but putting a whole system into question".
Which, on a subtle level, requires the precondition "I don't think we're that much on the wrong track here" - maybe also leading to the fact that Westerners in general have a problem to draw the conclusion of systematic patterns instead of just "seeing it as single independent cases" (and if they do it, then they do it with things religiously and see patterns under mostly emotional viewpoints).
Well... and what would you expect in awareness from that?
Not much, I think.
And I feel like noticing that in conversations about politics, when people are from West Germany. Even I! Although I cannot even build up an identity as a "citizen of the GDR" because I'm too young to know what that would mean in its full extent (and neither would want to).
I'm only sensitive to structures and patterns, respectively have an eye for it. I do not see these things with resentment...
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