(January 1, 2014 at 4:26 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Hedonic treadmill. It's not human nature to be consistently happy. You can't have a utopia that most people will recognize as a utopia, because their level of dissatisfaction is a constant.
This. This times a million. I saw a Youtube vid that explained it fairly well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdyc7BpKic0
Our brains are incredibly maleable. They have this habit of finding new 'norms' that may be different from previous norms. This makes it possible to get used to situations you once found uncomfortable, but the other side of that is that when you start getting too used to something especially pleasurable, what used to give us pleasure will become 'the norm' (addictions are the simplest example of this). We even change neural pathways to adjust accept norms.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
