Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.
It's funny. I change depending on what I'm around, and who I'm around. I've always been like that.
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
