Bret Easton Ellis
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Podcast Appearances
Why now?
Why do we need it now?
We've not evolved that much.
It's only been, you know, 30 years.
Why so much?
And Allison's got a story about the antibacterial hand soap and all this kind of stuff.
And I'm like,
I don't think that stuff that's 10 minutes old is always good or at least necessary.
And for some reason, this kicked into overdrive about five years ago and we've all decided it's the most important thing in the world.
I don't know.
Well, I think it started before five years ago.
I mean, what about the Adderall epidemic?
I mean, pretty much everybody I know in their 20s were put on Adderall in their teen years.
And it's just they take them like vitamins and it's
Is it really needed?
There was a very interesting article on the front page of the New York Times on Sunday about tracing the medical movement of creating this drug and the decade-long way to get it prescribed.
Really, it was a process.
It was like a building that
was under the auspices of a very smart architect.
They had the drug.