When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
You just need to find some way to enterprise on this boredom, like fetishizing it.
What lemons?
Lemon means both the fruit and an unsatisfactory person/thing, so the expression plays with that.
Right. If ennui is a lemon, I fail to see how it can be juiced.
Write poetry?
Is that what you do with your existential dread?
Not really, but in general having some way of putting it somewhere, be it a drawing or a piece of writing or something, can help with reducing the cycles on ruminating thoughts over an arbitrary sense of "I just wrote that down", a sense that the ideas won't be lost and are if anything redundant to think about when it's already been recorded.
A lot of loops in the mind are just looking for somewhere to go, and a lot of artists play with the idea of 'capturing' it in ways that can actually be pretty healthy if it doesn't otherwise turn self-indulgent. In general the urge is usually to make some sort of utterance about what's on our minds, even if it's just conversation, in order to issue it outwards instead of keeping it in.
Finding sources that identify with your dread can also help with finding a sense of community, but it becomes a bit of a coin flip for if you risk identifying with worse problems, like what the Gang Stalking Community goes through, or if you instead end up having an easier time fixing the problem from seeing how debilitating it is for others externally.
Still, all of the above ends up more interesting than boredom.
Yeah I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure it applies to unanswerable questions. Writing/painting might afford some distance, but the mind has a habit of returning to loose threads.
It's less our responsibility to answer those questions so much as find comfort in our expressions and opinions on them.
It's all we get out of it once it boils down to the whole... unanswerable part.
I've just accepted it as part of being. It doesn't cause me too much angst, it just is what it is.
It's not acceptance if you call it dread, but again having somewhere to put that energy helps.
What's weird is that it's given very little attention in the mainstream, aside from the occasional piece of art that directly confronts the nature of existence (and even then, art that deals with those questions tends to be fringe).
It is a bit genre locked in the indie and art communities, it's not like people can't find it, but they tend to need either a reason or a proclivity towards looking for those kinds of themes.
I guess Existential Dread must not sell well to the general crowd. It could have to do with the format too, as it seems to be more present in shows than movies.
I think it gives the false sense that most people don't grapple with existential dread. But surely that can't be the case?
Existential dread requires having a reason to ask existential questions. A lot kinda just find a formula and stop asking once they fall into the pattern. The ones stuck asking those questions tend to have hit a crossroads with their former path if they were not otherwise predisposed to it.
Most find a lack of closure to be a ruminatory disturbance, and would rather stop thinking about it in favor of what they find to be an otherwise functional worldview. The point for many is to feel as if they've found the answer, rather than to continually test that answer's validity, so that they can feel like they don't have to spend any more time on it.
Ę̵̚x̸͎̾i̴͚̽s̵̻͐t̷͐ͅe̷̯͠n̴̤̚t̵̻̅i̵͉̿a̴̮͊l̵͍̂ ̴̹̕D̵̤̀e̸͓͂t̵̢͂e̴͕̓c̸̗̄t̴̗̿ï̶̪v̷̲̍é̵͔
