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The Minimalists

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The Disease of Betterment

"I didn't realize how addicted I was to excitement. We can call it something else," he says. "The pursuit of happiness ... would be the way to veil it in a culturally virtuous way." Kepio: Betterment is a cultural disease, and as soon as one simply seeks to improve, grow, it seems that it creates more misery than good.

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