Founded in New York a little more than 40 years ago and now with a Facebook group that boasts 1.9 million members worldwide, the Dull Men’s Club promotes itself as “a place to slow down, enjoy simple, everyday things, escape the troubles of life today”.
It would be easy to poke fun at this celebration of the mundane and the trivial, but I think there is a pertinence about the growing popularity of a group which takes pride in having calm and considered conversation. Contrast that with the public realm today, where the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man are engaged in an open, highly personal dispute that is demeaning to them and depressing for the rest of us.
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Being dull is the very antithesis of our quick-fix, shoot-from-the-hip, antagonistic, selfie culture, in which privacy is eschewed and decorum has become obsolete. Boredom is the enemy. No one can sit still for a minute, never mind devote the time and energy to share their deliberations on the varying speeds of windscreen wipers.
Under the terms of what is considered unexciting, I think I was probably born dull. My most treasured possessions as a child were my I-Spy books, in which you received points for everyday objects you spotted (three points for a phone box, five points for a level crossing, etc), and then, as a young adult, I became obsessed with motorway service stations (I could name them all, in both geographical and alphabetical order). I have never quite got over the renaming of Scratchwood to London Gateway and Forton to Lancaster. Where has the romance gone?
All I am saying is that being dull, or – more accurately – being considered dull, is not in itself a bad thing. Every day we see men – and it is always men – ruining our world by their actions. How about some inaction instead, to allow the time for reflection and consideration and reason? That’s not dull at all, actually. And it would make the world an immeasurably better place.
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