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14 Nov 2018

Book: Why Buddhism Is True - thingelstad.com

The first quote already got me:

Natural selection doesn’t “want” us to be happy, after all; it just “wants” us to be productive, in its narrow sense of productive. And the way to make us productive is to make the anticipation of pleasure very strong but the pleasure itself not very long-lasting.