Boring Post

Living in an era of information overload, we are surrounded daily by emotional blackmail from all sorts of "solid content," "deep dives," and "life gurus." Turn on your phone, and it's either teaching you how to make a million a year or analyzing international affairs. In such a high-pressure reading environment, I've recently become fascinated by a reading oasis devoid of any substance – boring articles. What are boring articles? They aren't bad articles that make you angry, but rather pure crystallizations of "meaningless" text. For example, a few days ago, I read a review that was over a thousand characters long, and its topic was surprisingly "An Exploration of the Wood Grain Direction of Different Brands of Disposable Chopsticks and Their Friction Coefficient When Picking Up Meatballs." The author, with an extremely rigorous, almost academic journal-like tone, meticulously analyzed the microscopic structures of three convenience store disposable chopsticks. There were no climactic moments throughout the entire article, nor any inspiration that could enhance my life's value. But miraculously, as I read the last word, a long-lost sense of peace welled up in my heart. In a society that emphasizes efficiency and monetization, we've become too accustomed to everything we do needing to be "useful." When we read, we need to read self-help books; when we watch dramas, we need to watch ones with depth. However, these boring articles completely liberate our tense brains. They don't try to persuade you, sell you anxiety, or force you to think. They are like "white noise" in the world of text, helping to format the overloaded information in our minds in the gentlest, most harmless way possible.