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The title: >Happiness is a reward from our ancestors Followed by the subtitle: >Long-term happiness only comes to those who emulate their successful ancestor
by Groxx 3y ago
The title:
>Happiness is a reward from our ancestors
Followed by the subtitle:
>Long-term happiness only comes to those who emulate their successful ancestors
Did anyone else get a severe case of mental whiplash from that? I pretty strongly agree with the title in many ways (the now is built on the shoulders of the past), but holy cow I do not agree with that subtitle at all.
The rest of this reads like a pile of Sapir-Whorf combined with "works on my machine means it's correct".
- kubb 3y ago> I started to get the impression that I'm disagreeing a bit with the blog's basic premises. I believe that the reason why so much bullshit can pass, is that essentially, there are things that are not bullshit. If almost everything actually was bullshit, making people believe in things would have been much more difficult. Ah, yes, I'm somewhat of a philosopher, psychologist and social scientist too.
- elcritch 3y ago>Happiness is a reward from our ancestors >Long-term happiness only comes to those who emulate their successful ancestors The title made sense to me in terms of the subtitle when I read it. Our ancestors figured out how to survive and encoded it into happiness and passed it on as a gift. It's a sort of embedded encoding they've figured out and left for us in how to survive. Conversely I've begun thinking depression is a mammalian adaptation to weed out ineffective strategies more quickly.
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