"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings"

Søren Kierkegaard's quote suggests that dullness is the root of all evil, and that this is why the world is reversing and evil is spreading. He thinks that this can be traced back to the beginning of the world, when the gods were bored and produced people. This indicates that the gods developed people out of dullness, which this boredom has actually caused the world to end up being a location of evil. This quote suggests that the gods were not always malicious in their creation of human beings, however rather that their dullness caused the production of something that has caused wicked to spread. This quote likewise implies that the gods were not familiar with the effects of their actions, which they were not necessarily accountable for the evil that has actually spread out throughout the world.