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Love it and totally agree. The comfort we think we need is nothing else than hedonic adaptation.
I don’t disagree that I could survive without the comfort, and I would probably get used to the discomfort after a while and wouldn’t think about it as much. What I don’t understand is why it is bad to have gotten used to modern luxuries, or why my life would be better if I gave those up and lived more primitively. There is a reason we created all of these creature comforts for ourselves, and why very few people actu…
Probably because we waste years and years of our lifes chasing these things instead of being present and enjoying life as it is?