The Human Addictions

📖 The Scoop

Humans seek pleasure indeed, humans venerate pleasure, but are humans sentient, or feelers by nature, the way Science depicts them? Because if humans are defined as feelers, and if they are expected to behave as feelers, then this remains their meaning in life and in the world, to feel good always, to feel everything, and to live life feeling the best, even addicted. Yet as you notice, humans excel at reasoning the most, and not mainly at feeling, which describes more the animal kingdom. Pleasure is very good indeed, and it is better than pain, yet there is a great difference between feeling and reasoning. Because reasoning is more about mastering life and the world, while feeling is about celebrating these. Yet even this statement is not enough, because feelings are not even abilities within your cognitive system, but feelings are only meant to signal needs and their fulfillment, rewarding or punishing you depending on circumstances. While reasoning is your main cognitive ability, and you should treasure it accordingly.

This gap in understanding can make a difference indeed, because if you happen to live your life valuing feelings, including your good feelings, more than your actual human abilities, including all your cognitive abilities, then feelings and pleasure in special remain your focus and meaning in life. And with the multitude of artificial sources of pleasure that Society can offer, good luck to you, because it is only a matter of time before you too become addicted. And as we will see throughout the book, becoming addicted is not only an error of judgment that you make while trying to feel good in life as everyone else, it is not only a social constraint to make you subdue as everyone else, but addiction is integral part of the normal natural process of your cognitive system, and it is even used by your subconscious intelligence in various circumstances, in order to render you always disposed to fulfill specific highly important activities in life, as it is the case with your natural need for reproduction.

Why? You have to comprehend Society as it is, because once you are addicted, you become weak, predictable, and controllable, and this is how others take over your living and social niches, to exploit you. While you end up struggling with family problems, finance problems, and health problems, ever after. Would you like to be able to manage your life, your thinking, and your behavior? You have to be able to manage your feelings too. And you may do so not forcefully and not directly, since you are not a mechanism but a living being, but you can manage your feelings only by learning everything about your feelings, needs, development, addictions, intelligences, reasoning, behavior, Society, Life, the world, and your meaning and place in Life and in the world.

Throughout this book, we study what causes addictions in the world from all perspectives: cognitive, empiric, behavioral, social, scientific, developmental, and ideological. We also study each type of drugs, along with all addictive activities, in order to understand them and to be able to find ways to withdraw and avoid them, in all circumstances. And since your life in this world, along with your entire behavior have higher meanings, we study drugs, pleasure, and addictions within the human higher meaning in life and in the world. Because this book is not only about drugs and addictions, but this book helps you understand your mind, needs, feelings, intelligence, society, behavior, development, rewards, punishment, health, stress, and relaxation, all leading to a better understanding of who you are, how you reason, how you feel, and how you interconnect with those around throughout life and throughout the world.

Genre: Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs (fancy, right?)