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Addictions – Santi Aranguri

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11. Sometimes you are “forced” to consume a drug. If you are in an airport, they play music and you see half-naked women in the ads at the duty-free. I wrote forced between quotes because I can choose not to go to the airport. But not going to the airport because of the previous reason doesn’t make sense to me. And the same for other activities. Hence, a skill is needed: in the presence of “unavoidable” drugs, I can train to not be affected by them. To repeat to myself, this is fake, there is not a woman singing for me. When my eyes look at the movie on another person’s phone, I close my eyes and tell myself there are not incredible things happening on the movie on the phone, but that those are happening outside. 10. Define technology as anything that is present now and wasn’t present in a primitive tribe. The highest risk of being confused by technology is when you think that you are of higher or lower status than you are. For instance, Instagram is a bigger problem than having lights

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