Why the Modern World Puts Us All at Risk for Addiction (2021)
The Next Big Idea
The Silver Warning: Discontent Is Tied to Our Innate Dissatisfaction
We were descended from the discontented ones who were never totally happy or not for long. Thomas Edison said, discontent is the first necessity of progress. We've got to find some kind of way to decouple the striving from our sort of relentless pursuit of pleasure and this compulsive over consumption that's become such the hallmark of modern existence.
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