You Don't Want to Drink, but You Want to Read It!

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i can relate to your comentary about feeling you now like your youre still optimizing your relationship to drinking. My own relationship with alcohol is complex because i think, i think i like it too much. So, as you can imagine, reading your book was just a joy for me. It was the joy of both the intellectual curiosity, variety, and also the joy of confirmation biaso, o, like reading things i wanted to hear. When i started your book, i thought i drank a bit too much. By the end, i was leaning towards the view that i might not be drinking enough. O, ive got to be responsible for that now, and you got dike

Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward, who’s a professor at the University of British Columbia and self-proclaimed “philosophical hedonist,” says that far from being an evolutionary fluke, our taste for alcohol is an evolutionary advantage — one that we’ve relied on for millennia to help us lead more social, creative, and pleasurable lives.