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Okay,
so the question is why don't,

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why do people pursue rewards that don't 
produce this resonance?

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They don't have a value hierarchy,
so pleasure island.

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It's a good example.
Those kids that were brought there were 

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lost so they didn't.
They didn't have anywhere to go.

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They didn't have an identity,
so they default to local pleasure and 

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that's better than none.
Although the problem with local 

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pleasure,
while as the narrative made clear,

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is that you better look out if you're 
impulsive because it's going to kick 

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back on Newhart,
and the reason is you're only 

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considering the immediate timeframe,
and the problem is,

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is that things propagate across all the 
timeframes and so just because something

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works really well,
this second,

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cocaine for example,
doesn't mean that it's a tenable 

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solution to the class of all problems.
So usually often people pursue local 

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pleasure because that's the best they 
can imagine.

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It's the best they've been taught.
They don't see another alternative.

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So it could be ignorance,
it can be they don't want to adopt the 

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responsibility because part of the 
problem with working at every level of 

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the hierarchy simultaneously is that 
it's,

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it's,
well,

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it's like dancing to a very complex 
waltz,

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let's say.
You have to be paying attention to a 

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very large number of things 
simultaneously and doing things right.

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It requires responsibility.
And so you know,

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that's.
It's a pain.

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It's a weight.
Part of the reason people drink alcohol 

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is to get rid of their responsibility.
I mean,

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that's what you know,
you hear people drink because they have 

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problems.
It's like,

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yeah,
yeah,

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no.
Some people drink because they're 

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anxious and alcoholics drink because 
they're in withdrawal.

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But young people drink because they're 
sick and tired of being responsible 

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because it's annoying.
It's like,

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so I'll drink enough.

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I won't care about the medium to 
longterm consequences because alcohol,

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that's exactly what alcohol does.
It doesn't make you ignorant of the 

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medium to longterm consequences,
but it makes you not care about them.

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And partly it's because it dampens 
anxiety.

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So it dampens anxiety,
leaves your positive emotion circuits 

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intact.
So then you can go out there and do 

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stupid,
fun things and that's like,

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that's a party really.
Let's go do stupid fun things.

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That's a party.
But the medium to longterm consequences 

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are.
It's risky.

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It doesn't mean you shouldn't do it,
but it's risky.

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So yeah,
they don't know better.

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That's the answer I would say.
So.