Haley Baumeister’s Reviews > Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire > Status Update

"Specialization especially seems to understand reality as disintegrated and manipulable, just as the specialist of fertility and pornography understand sexuality. Rejecting the delight of the whole of goodness, all reality is open to our exploitation, equivalent to boredom."

"For Adam to say no to Eve is to say no to God and to his own nature, even if it would remain a kind of self-mastery 'which exalts the isolated individual in an absolute way, and gives no place to solidarity, to openness to others and service of them.'" [Evangelium Vitae]

"And since the world is devoid of thickness, everything becomes a plaything, something to tame, toy with, lead about on a leash, and discard when we have drained its temporary pleasure."