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Undertoad · 09-21-2018, 10:13 AM

It's all about the Johann Hari Ted talk, pointed to by Clod here (I hope this is the one I'm thinking of):

https://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=1010965&postcount=5

Give rats in standard lab cages morphine, and they take right to it. But put the rats in a beautiful "rat park", with other rats to be social with, and lots of space to explore, and wheels and things; and they reject the morphine.

Without meaning, without fulfilment, we are just rats in a cage.

09-21-2018, 10:13 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It's all about the Johann Hari Ted talk, pointed to by Clod here (I hope this is the one I'm thinking of): https://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=1010965&postcount=5 Give rats in standard lab cages morphine, and they take right to it. But put the rats in a beautiful "rat park", with other rats to be social with, and lots of space to explore, and wheels and things; and they reject the morphine. Without meaning, without fulfilment, we are just rats in a cage.