"There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the prevalence of unrelieved boredom." -- Eric Hoffer in The True

"There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the prevalence of unrelieved boredom." -- Eric Hoffer in The True Believer, a 1951 book which I find to be extremely relevant in the era of so-called "smart mobs".