“Anything you wanted in your life, whether it was a car or whether it was a girl or whether it was money, when you got it, a year later you were back to zero. Your brain had hedonically adapted to it and you were looking for the next thing.”

No one ever says, Here am I, and I have brought my body with me.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1938)

How we are at the small scale is how we are at the large scale. The patterns of the universe repeat at scale. What we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.

Disappearance as a form of control, engulfment as a form of escapism