In this article the phenomenon of boredom is considered in a paradoxical way. On the one hand, we have before us the substance of spoiled time, that is, the content of life, which is identical with its emptiness. But human adulthood is largely determined by the ability to deal with boredom, to make it bearable. And the most important way to this is the reception of art as a symbolic production. Boredom allows you to deal with not relevant things. Thus it is in it, in the background boredom, that the art of opuses gets its most reliable support.