Is the Covet Hysteria a Political Position?

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i think this is just like, a part of people's psychology that then can be exploited for clicks and stuff like that. But there's not some deeper reason were like, you know, some massive corporation. It's more just the atlant onin clicks. The fear of doing things was, for so, i thought, for so long, something associated with conservative beliefs. Or it's sort of weird that that copet has become something that goes in such the opposite direction. I remember being at my uncle's funeral in south carolina at the height of the pandomic. Nobody was wearing a mask. Just nobody.

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic paper on the concept of flow. We talk about the features of flow activities – loss of ego, the merging of your awareness with the activity, and autotelic (not what you think) enjoyment. What makes flow activities so rewarding? Do you need to develop skills over many years to experience them? Do easy and natural social interactions count as flow?

Plus as men of pure virtue, we call an audible and choose not to make fun of a recent paper (with a student as lead author). Instead we pilot a not fully formed idea: “Substack Starters." Now that the economy is tanking, do we have any heterodox beliefs that might lead to profitable Substacks?