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The indifference threshold, then, is the point at which we feel something is worth the effort. As Wilson came to see, bored, spoiled people have a very high indifference threshold; people with a strong sense of purpose have a much lower one. A god, we could say, would have no threshold at all: someone like this would find everything worth the effort and would never feel bored.
Beyond the Robot
Gary Lachman
The old pretentions of Burning Man being “American’s new holiday” are perfectly true. It has achieved the status of true mass ritual—a particular way of celebrating and noting a particular aspect of the human experience, in roughly the same way. The repeated ritual of inversion and jesting and wild play and all that.
This Is Burning Man
Brian Doherty
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
~Charles Addams
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