In the Metropolis and Mental Life, we read about the blase effect. “Life makes one blasé because it stimulates the nerves to their utmost re-activity until they finally can no longer produce any reaction at all,” (329).
In the dictionary, the definition of Blase is – “indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures”.
In life we can find many examples of what can represent the blase effect.
To start of we can talk about school. There are some people who enjoy school and some who don’t and at some point I believe that everyone gets tired. We go through the same things all the way from elementary to college. WE deal with people, come across new information, bad and good teachers, and so many other things. After a while we can expect to become indifferent. And everything after school also, which means a job. A job has us chasing the money that we want to use to enjoy life, but soon enough envelops us because of our hunger for the best quality of life. Day after day, we work and work, until the point where we just font want to and just don’t care about the job, but only what it brings to us at the end of the week or month. This all becomes boring at some point, and when it is your turn to enjoy life, we can honestly say we feel indifferent and bored with life.