
Paul Bloom
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
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The First Rule of Life Is You Need an Obstacle
In general, from the standpoint of of our pleasurable experiences, a tremendous amount of them happen our own heads. If you add up everything, the biggest pleasures are oure things you don't actually do. Thet involve movies and t v programmes and novels and video games just take up an enormous amount of time. And we know we're not, they're not real, but we enjoy them none the less. We often seek out entertainments where there's trouble, where where there's disappointment and loss a and an negativity and anxiety. i think these a fictional appetites mirror a real world appetites. Just as just as we want to have meaningful pursuits in the real world, we
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