We live in a artificial world of our own manufacture which is chronically unsuited to our genetically programmed prerogatives.<\/p>\n
In place of choices that give us an immediate return on our decisions, we are forced to make choices which only result in the promise of potential long term rewards.<\/p>\n
What do I mean?<\/p>\n
Natural<\/strong>: I am hungry, therefore I must find food or starve. This is extremely unnatural. Our nature demands we see an immediate reward for our efforts and when we cannot, we become stressed.<\/p>\n Why do you think so-called smartphones are so chronically addictive?\u00a0 I think it is because they are one of the few things that give us an immediate return on investment.\u00a0 We touch the screen, and something happens. We text someone, and they text us right back.<\/p>\n Smartphones give us instant feedback in a world we have rendered long-term.<\/p>\n Perhaps I should start using mine?\u00a0 No, I don’t think so.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Because I realize my need for happiness is far deeper than a touch-screen will ever be.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We live in a artificial world of our own manufacture which is chronically unsuited to our genetically programmed prerogatives. In place of choices that give us an immediate return on our decisions, we are forced to make choices which only result in the promise of potential long term rewards. What do I mean? Natural: I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[385],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nManufactured<\/strong>: Working now will give me a paycheck in a week, with which I will be able to buy food for the following week.<\/p>\n