Stephen Dubner
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And we could all name many, many bad habits that we've all had that we'd like to get rid of, but we know they're hard.
And there are different stages or dimensions of addiction, let's say.
It's really easy for someone outside of that mode to say, just stop it.
That's the obvious answer from the 30,000 foot parental view.
But everybody knows that if you're doing a thing, just stopping is hard because it's an activity.
It makes you feel a certain way.
Especially a Tesla truck.
Because I remember when Coors was considered a right-wing beer.
That's what I'm saying.
Bud Light represents the liberals.
I thought you were saying that Bud Light posts the trans scandal.
Can I just say, this is terrible.
I hope they're not your sponsors, but I think anybody who's drinking either Bud Light or Coors can do better.
No, you're right.
I think this goes back to what we were talking about a while ago about taking control of your own state of mind.
Here's what I think.
Without evidence, I think that most people who make everything political for themselves or for other people, which we would agree has a bad effect, I would argue that most of them
probably don't really think that much about why they do it, but they've been suggested into it.
There's currency for it, there's incentives to do it, but there's a certain point at which you feel like it's not having a good effect on your mind and body.
Here's an example.