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Is delayed gratification more valuable than instant gratification? This episode unpacks the value of reckless self-indulgence, an increasingly demonised way of life in the world of protein bros and wellness culture.

substack essay: hedonism and the will to live

https://jordanstacey.substack.com/p/hedonism-and-the-will-to-live?r=4b9cpt

SORRY IT'S BEEN SO LONG!!!!!

Talk soon xx

Last night I woke up from a nap to a youtube video on stoicism called "Why do you postpone yourself?" based on the works of stoic philosopher Seneca. This philosophical summary captured a feeling that has been marinating in my mind palace for years! Shout out to this divinely timed nap for landing me here.

Moral of the story: if you have legs you can start walking, you don't HAVE to sit idly at the train station waiting to set your life's work into motion. Privilege is of course a huge part of this conversation, but it is the people with the strongest legs that tends to be the most loathe to walk.

Whether you wait for the speed train or begin strolling down the path of your life's work, whether you are the hare or the tortoise, there is no reward at the end for how you arrive.

Youtube video in question

Happy pondering xx

Are you the fish, the fisherman or the ocean? What is a thought and how much control do you have over your own thought-making process? The concept of mind, body and consciousness separation is a thread throughout all schools of philosophy and spirituality, both modern and ancient. This episode is essentially me unpacking my take on this thread through some silly analogies (drink every time I say fish and you will drown).

What is thought when it is not organised by language? Does our concept of what thought is hinge too much on the connection between thought and language, that is, the intellectualisation of the abstract? What was thinking like for preliterate humans and what do babies and animals experience?

WOULD WE BE FREE OF THE OVER-INTELLECTUALISATION OF EMOTION IF WE DID NOT HAVE LABELS FOR OUR FEELINGS TO BEGIN WITH? Surely cavemen weren't struggling to decipher whether they were experiencing platonic or romantic love and were just at the mercy of the experience itself.

MUCH TO PONDER (if one can even conceptualise what it means to ponder).