That's why people can't sleep. That's why people's blood pressure is up.

That's why people are eating food to try and feel satisfied.

That's why people are doing everything they can to avoid their own experience.

People are doing everything they can to avoid their own experience. People are doing everything they can to avoid their own experience.

Because the process that goes on in the mind, the thinking activity, the conversation that

that produces about the experience is disturbing a lot of the time.

So...

And you can see right there how that's behind addiction.

All the little addictions, food addiction, alcohol addiction, the need to smoke weed, you know, deeper drug addictions, all the little things

that we're addicted to that we need to play video games for six hours a day, whatever your thing is, all of those things are really products of you

trying to escape in some sense the negative experience of thinking all the damn time.

And so you artificially try to raise your mood

or block out your thinking or put a lid on the shit

in one way or another, numb yourself out

because it's fucking exhausting and it sucks ass.

Even if you're relatively healthy, you have relatively healthy thoughts.

It's just constant all day long.

And it beats us the fuck down. It exhausts us. And so people are

stressed out. They're anxious. Now does this have a connection to the social conditions we're in?

Obviously, definitely, those social conditions make it worse, give your brain new things to worry

about. But even if all those material conditions were completely solved

and you were lived in a much better society that's a much healthier society,

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