In The Antichrist, Nietzsche claimed that the gods are useless against this emotion.
In The Antichrist, Nietzsche claimed that the gods are useless against this emotion. In The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics Martin Heidegger outlined three types of this state, characterized by one who spends time waiting for a train. According to Marxism, this feeling arises in workers due to alienation of labor. Kierkegaard's Repetition proclaims that the ultimate evil is not idleness, but rather this emotion, since it is like a "demonic pantheism." Baudelaire used two words for this concept, an elegant state of mind he termed "spleen," and a more destructive condition of this state he termed ennui. For 10 points, identify this state in which a person believes their current activity lacks simulation.
In The Antichrist, Nietzsche claimed that the gods are useless against this emotion.
boredom [accept word forms, accept apathy]