oitribe posted:Imaginary_Kevin posted:Human beings were not meant to be happy by nature. Our brains are just too complex and fucked up.
Any happiness we want, we have to go find or make for ourselves.
thats not true our brains want feel good chemicals. our minds want to be enlightened.
Perhaps "brains" wasn't the correct choice of words, but rather our consciousness. It is true that we do possess chemicals that reward us and make us happy, and if we were animals and couldn't think, that would be enough. However, our minds always steer us away from such simple happiness. We doubt ourselves, we judge each other, we crave conflict and drama. So, while we do have those chemicals, unless we go out and
do something to get those juices flowing, we'll just be miserable. We've moved beyond the point where we will trigger those chemicals often in our day to day activities, as we no longer limit our daily activities exclusively to running, hunting, eating, playing and fucking.
Now, I don't think human happiness is as simple as the above activities, but do you see what I'm getting at? The more advanced we become, the more we actually get in our own way. We're literally evolving away from happiness.
