Re:‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whol...
by kaizendc on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:09PM
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You're right, the hedonic adaptation is all imaginary. David Foster Wallace and the many psychologists who support it's existence are all wrong.
Perhaps they should read your dissertation on it?
/s
The only reason he has to assert it like that is because it isn't true. He has a lack of imagination if he's not able to imagine someone who doesn't worship anything. I imagine he'd just move the goalposts though, and say "oh well they worship their lack of worship, which is a form of eating them alive." It's disingenuous at best, but probably just ignorance, so that he can sound profound without really giving a convincing argument.