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The Hedonic Treadmill

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Re: The Hedonic Treadmill

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Post by daodedickinson »

throwitaway_sam wrote: post #117
daodedickinson wrote: post #115

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Check out The True Beleiver by Eric Hoffer or Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich for some explanations for this long observed effect. Schooling trained myself and my best friends to expect to be able to use what we learned, even though there were no roles in society for us. We are national merit finalists, calculus users, programmers, 99th percentile GRE scorers... one friend is nearly homeless. Another bags grocerie…

Been there, done that, found a way out of it. PM me.

I might if there was a PM option.

Re: The Hedonic Treadmill

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Post by MatthewMcDonald »

conceit wrote: post #132
MatthewMcDonald wrote: post #106

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Ha, it's not mine - it's from a YouTube video called My New Haircut (NSFW)

And still it once ment jagged, your sentence doesn't prove jack-shit

My sentence is simply an example of the word 'jacked' being used in a way that is synonymous with muscular. 'Jacked' is sometimes used with this meaning, regardless of your approval. Slang is often ephemeral, I would try not to get upset when it changes.

Re: The Hedonic Treadmill

#134

Post by conceit »

MatthewMcDonald wrote: post #133
conceit wrote: post #132

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And still it once ment jagged, your sentence doesn't prove jack-shit

My sentence is simply an example of the word 'jacked' being used in a way that is synonymous with muscular. 'Jacked' is sometimes used with this meaning, regardless of your approval. Slang is often ephemeral, I would try not to get upset when it changes.

> regardless of your approval

I have only given disapproval so far. Your personal approval on the other hand is pretty important to yourself. By the line of your argument, you do draw approval from others', so mine is slightly important, too, as evidenced by your attentive answers. I might just have been wrong, which is still more agreeable than accepting two concurrent opinions.

Re: The Hedonic Treadmill

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Post by tacon »

daodedickinson wrote: post #131
throwitaway_sam wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been there, done that, found a way out of it. PM me.

I might if there was a PM option.

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