Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Love is a Mental Illness" video.

  1. I've never understood the inherent risk of looking stupid. It would seem to be some version of "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt". But I don't care much, I guess, about being thought a fool...maybe because I believe there isn't ONE SINGLE PERSON ON THIS PLANET WHO KNOWS SHIT FOR REAL!
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  2. You're missing the important point: you can do to yourself, through manipulations of your psyche, what actual addictive drugs can do! The placebo effect is still unexplained scientifically, though widely and broadly dismissed. So...Morgan Freeman, for instance, may be addicted, in his brain, to his "sense" of being a great actor. Maybe he's likewise addicted, in his brain, to the psycho-physiological experience of his favorite breakfast, its anticipation, preparation, consumption, and aftereffect. Maybe that's how all our brains work...we're all addiction machines. On the other hand, the problem may lie in our conceptualization: "craving" is simply "desire"; "addiction" is simply "dependence". The use of special terms creates a special class which appears to be distinct from its parent class, leading to the distinct impression that the special class is a different order of thing than its parent. This is a necessary prerequisite to suppressing the special class whilst buoying the parent class. IOW, the illusion-making system needed a way to demonize extreme desire as "craving", and extreme dependence as "addiction" in order to attack it WITHOUT attacking desire and dependence.
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