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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 c
by 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 agoMaybe 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.