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Decision-making led by convenience and instant gratification forms a ‘wiring’ that affects our thinking on multiple facets of our daily existence, including health, wealth, and knowledge.
Decision-making led by convenience and instant gratification forms a ‘wiring’ that affects our thinking on multiple facets of our daily existence, including health, wealth, and knowledge.
Reading The Dawn of Everything made me realise that we might have traded individual freedom for what we call civil society. And this version of civil society, from all that I see around me, is going rogue.
The measure of what makes a good life is quite subjective, but increasingly, the decision is being made on the basis of how that appears to the world. In the recent past, I have been making conscious trade-offs.
The internet has replaced the Joneses, and our constant pursuit of presenting a perfect self to the world has caused self-objectification at not just the physical level, but at a cognitive level too. Can our brain handle it?
As someone who has lived through a couple of decades of not being a parent, and having had these conversations with folks who aren’t sure of this decision, these are my perspectives on becoming a parent, or not.