We are all bearers of our own contradictions. I am a desperate believer in the danger of the concept of elitism, yet I dislike the drive to blame élites (the word derives from the French meaning to select or sort out from the mass) – especially intellectual élites – for the malaise of the modern … More In truth, if we even just tried to understand ourselves when we feel inclined to say that we are ‘bored’, nothing would be ‘boring!’