Ordinary Banana

affect inequality (specifically some people having bad affect) is at base level what we care about and what matters

almost all drugs that improve affect are illegal but very cheap to produce under free market conditions. that’s it

And with science better ones could be created if it were not illegal. Still, some concern about Soma and Brave New World.

I feel like worrying that people are too happy is a problem we should be so lucky to have

Economic and political dangers in a euphoric but zombified population. On a more concrete level, I think the opioid epidemic gives some reason for concern that human irrationality may not be well-suited to the chemical availability of happiness.

I’m suspicious of the “opioid crisis” currently taking place under a prohibition regime

prohibition tends to limit and concentrate available substances and remove group ritual guidance

Agreed. But I have some experience with doctors who are dealing with opioid patients because I have serious insomnia and sleeping-pills were foolishly lumped together with the opioids in regulation, so I see in how they deal with me what they're getting from others. (cont.)