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It seems like many people in this thread missed the sarcastic tone of the article...

• mirimir 8y ago
  Well, I just about stopped reading at > Let’s exclude some obvious ways, like doing drugs ... Not entirely, though. But I did get disgusted not long after, by the smug tone. Maybe it's all sarcastic ranting about self-help literature. But even if so, I didn't find it very funny.
  • milankovic 8y ago
    What the hell did you expect from AlterNet?
  • lopmotr 8y ago
    Yes, it seemed a bit random and confusing to me. I didn't think drugs or gambling obviously made people miserable - aren't they purpose made for pleasure? They don't really annoy other people either which turned out to be what the list was actually about - it should be called "Behaviors I don't like in other people because I don't know how to handle them".
    • zbentley 8y ago
      They are purpose made for pleasure, but not happiness. Put another way: those things are constructed to induce a point-in-time pleasurable state of mind; not create lasting happiness—in fact, they are often at odds with sustainable positivity due to their risk/feedback/reward cyclic nature.
      • bernardino 8y ago
        Maybe it’s just semantics but what is the distinction between doing something like drugs for pleasure versus doing something like drugs for escapism? Do they overlap? I’m now oddly reminded of Freud’s Civilisation and It’s Discontents, where he talks about the pleasure principle, etc — I should pick it up again but it felt tedious.
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