The Ennui Aesthetic

It seems that we've been bitten by a certain bug, one that takes any sense of meaning and truth and tries to reject it for the sake of something different. With our ability to constantly access so much media and escape to any place we wish—whether it be historical, fictional, or somewhere in between—we've been hit with perhaps the greatest sense of ennui the world has ever seen. It's not that this ennui is qualitatively different from other ones, but that it's happening at such a great scale. If there is a single word that could be used to describe the 21st century, it would have to be globalization. Everything is at scale now. Everyone has every bit of everything tangible to them, granted they have access to a computer with an internet connection. But the novelty has really worn off, and this way of living is just the day-to-day. People seem to either be bored or suffering, right? Honestly, I think it's just a warped series of expectations. The average person consumes about a…