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I'm going to go out on a limb and say this has many more implications than just food related memories..

• colanderman 10y ago
  Depression/rumination for one I would think.
  • internaut 10y ago
    Rumination could be the reason for the success of Westerners. Negative emotions exist for reasons linked to survival or they would not exist at all. It is difficult not to notice that those countries which have prospered the most over time are also those places where the inhabitants can be stereotypically withdrawn, introspective, morose. It is for this reason I do not trust sunny Californian optimism. It is more than plausible that the opposite, a dim view of the future and humanity, will lead to ultimate long lasting successes. In countries where the inhabitants are exuberant, joyful, extroverted, their economy is invariably en route back to a war torn hellscape from which it came. Don't ask me to have a universal theory of why this should be so. It is just hard not to notice the pattern. I believe that holding a dystopian view of the future is counterintuitively key to the development of new technology that arrests the probability of that view becoming a reality. Prepare for war if you want peace. Perhaps the same is true of humanity and technology.