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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

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WIST Quotations · Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 "What Makes People Unhappy?" (1930) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST QuotationsA man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of "pleasure." That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it…
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Einzelgänger

Throwback Friday - Could it be that chasing happiness doesn’t make us happier and could even make us miserable? And if so, how should we go about this ‘happiness’ thing? This video explores the nature of happiness.

[Video Title: Why Chasing Happiness is Pointless (The Hedonic Treadmill)]
The full video is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=E0XnniP9PCk

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Yann Büchau :nixos:

Is this the #inflation everyone talks about or increasing #hedonism? 😅 Our living expenses have steadily increased over the last eight years. I can't remeber being particularly more economical in the past.

Made with my :hledger: #hledger-plot command (gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/hled). I find such graphical budgeting and planning very powerful. That's the power of #plainTextAccounting: You got the data, do anything with it. 🚀

Thanks @simonmic for hledger, such a fantastic tool! 🥳

Graph of everyday costs (groceries, restaurant, cleaning stuff, etc.) from 2017 to 2033. Blue an orange line are rather similar (the two persons in the household), green is the total. Trend lines over each line. A steady slight upwards trend of costs is visible until 2024/2025 (now), from there on the budgeted curve flattens out.
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Nuki Raccoon: The DEI Program of Furry Erotica

You know, suddenly, this implies to me that there is a structured #philosophy in the future of #Modders, a combination of #stoicism, #hedonism, and #science, call it #StoicHedonism if you will, in which practitioners aim to break down inhibitions and the judgmental side of them, and achieve "total acceptance" of the world around them...

In a sense, they've made a whole school of thought out of "don't kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes."

Perhaps I should be writing that down on top of the other stuff.

Also, thinking about how I've never fully written out the idea of a "#deviancy scale" or a test with it outside of this thing, and I know that's actually a really important metric for a lot of things in applied #psychology, so that might be interesting to write about too...

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