| | Joe wrote:
Understanding how emotions act as a reward or punishment should show you why it's so important to get your emotions sorted out. If you feel sad or guilty when you accomplish great things, and pleasure when you screw up your life, how effective will you be at living? When your motivators are turned against your life by punishing success or rewarding failure, then you really have problems. And it goes without saying that the extent to which they're messed up is the extent to which you'll have problems.
I rented and watched The Libertine starring Johnny Depp yesterday. If ever a film showed the consequences of hedonism and an overt worship of unreason, that one did it. His emotional programming fits this description you give. Even though he declared himself an atheist, he also explicitly despised reason. He died in ruin of syphilis and alcoholism in his 30s.
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