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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

The Portal

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Is There a Lot of Status That Is Not Going to Be a Good Thing?

Ra, i think that am, you know, it's like is always make fun of the fact that, evolutionarily, you're crazy for sugar. We can feel good about than bad about where someone else is doing socially well. I have a friend who is the nicest person in the world, except when he's doing well, and then he becomes very difficult to deal with,. So they'r like th there's the person whose fine one glass of alcohol, then you don't want them to have threey. And addiction of any kind, any hypernormal stimulus that decreases normal stimulus, is going to end at being net bad for us.

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