Arthur Brooks

And you don't.

And that's the problem.

That's what a big part of the striver's curse.

Yeah, yeah.

So there's a reason that it's anti-memetic, and that's because it goes against Mother Nature.

mother nature wants you to be fooled the reason that that the that the the ancient williamsons right from some place some anglo-saxon tribe of something something right yeah yeah the reason they passed on their genes is because they were fooled by mother nature

that they were fooled, that they actually, that they chased the arrival fallacy again and again and again and again.

Now, the reason that you're not going to be satisfied, the reason that it can't be satisfied is because Mother Nature needs you in the hunt.

But the only way you're going to stay in the hunt is with a promise that you're finally going to get there.

Now, there's a side note to this.

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.