Steven
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Because I would have been like the rest of the world. I would have just thought, oh, what an idiot. What a dickhead. What's he doing that? That's strange behavior.
Because I would have been like the rest of the world. I would have just thought, oh, what an idiot. What a dickhead. What's he doing that? That's strange behavior.
You must have had many cases that broke your heart.
You must have had many cases that broke your heart.
Can you tell me about one that changed you?
Can you tell me about one that changed you?
If you were president of the United States, for example, let's just use this country as an example, and you had to make upstream changes to the way society was designed in order to mitigate the downstream symptom of addiction, addictive behaviours, etc. What are those things that you would change about the way that our society is designed? You could change anything.
If you were president of the United States, for example, let's just use this country as an example, and you had to make upstream changes to the way society was designed in order to mitigate the downstream symptom of addiction, addictive behaviours, etc. What are those things that you would change about the way that our society is designed? You could change anything.
It reminds me of Rat Park.
It reminds me of Rat Park.
What is Rat Park for those that don't know?
What is Rat Park for those that don't know?
Many of us are living in the first model of Rat Park.
Many of us are living in the first model of Rat Park.
We're living alone. We're living in these big cities. We're more sedentary than ever before. Maybe, you know, we've moved to a big city because we don't have, which means we don't have our family around. We might be doing a job that's incredibly challenging.
We're living alone. We're living in these big cities. We're more sedentary than ever before. Maybe, you know, we've moved to a big city because we don't have, which means we don't have our family around. We might be doing a job that's incredibly challenging.
So it's no wonder when we think about addiction and alcohol and some of these other behaviours, but more broadly beyond alcohol as a substance, other addictive behaviours, whether it's social media or it's what we eat or pornography or in the sort of inverse, the good habits, the healthy food, the working out, the exercise, the productive behaviors, why we're struggling so much.
So it's no wonder when we think about addiction and alcohol and some of these other behaviours, but more broadly beyond alcohol as a substance, other addictive behaviours, whether it's social media or it's what we eat or pornography or in the sort of inverse, the good habits, the healthy food, the working out, the exercise, the productive behaviors, why we're struggling so much.
And I've often wondered if we should all just like go to like communes and live, do you
And I've often wondered if we should all just like go to like communes and live, do you