greed
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The dopamine, the deceitful dopamine, gives them a false sense of value.
— Soroosh Shahrivar
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“Art is not about decorating or creating things to sell. It’s about revealing truth and sharing ideas.”
— Blek le Rat
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The Cost of Never Enough
What is the cost of our inability to feel satiated? Research shows materialistic individuals report lower life satisfaction, more depression, and greater anxiety despite their wealth. The pursuit of material possessions becomes a source of suffering in which we are always wanting more, while rarely savoring what we already have.
Our relationships deteriorate when acquisition becomes our focus. Partners, children, and friends fade into the background while we instead focus on our wealth-building or status-seeking projects.
Perhaps most profound is the spiritual emptiness that accompanies our fixation on material objects. This creates a painful gap between what we have and what we think we need to finally make us happy.
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
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What Happens In The Brain When We Dislike Somebody – Headspace
“In order to understand what happens in your body when you dislike someone, you can start by trying to understand fear. As Robert Sapolsky writes in “Why Your Brain Hates Other People,” when we see someone who even looks different from us, “there is preferential activation of the amygdala,” which means the brain region associated with fear and aggression flares up. This visceral, emotional reaction can spark a long-term pattern of dislike when it’s validated by action: if you perceive that someone has hurt you, your fear of them becomes rational. Our negative feelings toward someone get stronger as bad experiences with them pile up, and these negative thoughts trigger the fight-or-flight response in our bodies.”
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“Deceiving yourself shouldn’t make logical sense. After all, lying involves telling someone something you know to be untrue. When you are both the liar and one lied to, this means you have to both know the truth and not know the truth. In practice, that means willfully disregarding key knowledge to arrive at a conclusion that is more convenient than what the facts appear to suggest.”
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
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“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
– Kurt Cobain
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“The modern Democratic Party is not the party of the poor, but of the professional class — a class that sees itself as a progressive force, but often promotes policies that benefit itself rather than the truly needy.”
— Thomas Frank (from Listen, Liberal)
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“The middle class is like a buffer between the capitalist ruling class and the proletariat, often serving the interests of the former while believing they are defending the latter.”
— Karl Marx
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“Art is not about decorating or creating things to sell. It’s about revealing truth and sharing ideas.”
— Blek le Rat
