/lit/ - Literature

>>6545267
equilibrium meaning just being alive? Seeking a return to a state where you're at low states of distress/pleasure?
If you give people choices to get what they want, or go make themselves miserable, I don't think they openly choose miserable. They chase highs thinking its the near future that matters most, and its only when they live long enough that they regret not making choices to support a higher standard of living over a greater period of time.
In other words, I guess the point is to try to score the highest on your emotional meters for the longest in order to say you're winning.

But, say you lived for only one day. You don't even have the time to contemplate how much time you have and you have no knowledge to chew that thought. You're just a feel machine.

I wonder. Maybe that never changed. Maybe we're all still the feel machine we always were and knowledge, thoughts we have, the behaviors we do just keep feeding into the same machine for the same responses for that set period of time.
And all that differs now is the memories we have, that tell us we are not the mayfly with a day to live.