Arthur Brooks

There's a metaphysical side note to this, by the way.

This is a little bit of a side note that kind of takes us in the transcendent dimension.

We'll come back to the rival palace in a second.

But there is a philosophical set of arguments for the existence of something, which is that the desire for something is actually proof of the existence of its object.

So for example, proof that water exists is that I feel thirst.

Proof or evidence that food exists is that I feel hungry.

Now, I want unremitting happiness.

I want it.

And I feel like I can actually get it somehow.

But I can't.

I can't.

But that, philosophically, is a proof that it does exist.

Not here.

That's actually proof of a divine afterlife, actually.

It's evidence of a divine afterlife, that you have this hunger for unremitting happiness.

which suggests that it actually does exist, but you can't get it in this life.

Maybe you can get it someplace else is what it comes down to.

And this is one of the great proofs in most of the both Abrahamic and karmic religions for the existence of nirvana, heaven, whatever it happens to be.

Anyway, back to the question at hand, why would mother nature play this trick on us?

Because we got to stay hungry.