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Is the Answer to a Dilemma Connection?
It seems like the struggle imparts a sort of strength that shores up ourselves against the manipulative nature, or the high jacking nature of addictions. And it also engenders self confidence, because then we can always go back to that struggle as the touchstone for a withstanding future struggles. I think there's a ton of truth and wisdom in in that idea. But my criticism of that work is that it suggests that if you have really great human connections, that you're somehow immune to the problem of addiction. And that is not true, especially in the world that we live in now.