I wanted to say something about this post that is making the rounds, about happiness and vegetables. Yeah, those two things sound like they should be pointing toward a punchline. But the lifestyle issues are something that deserve some attention, even if, as is noted in that post, we can't really say which way the correlation works. Do people who are generally content eat more fruits and vegetables? Another way of asking: do people who are content eat less crappy food? I think most of us are aware that unhappiness can lead us to eat things that are essentially toxic: too many carbs, too many fats, too much sugar. And these in turn can make us more unhappy. It is all part of my depression as parasite metaphor, about which more soon. (In brief: depression acts like a parasite that feeds on sorrow, a parasite that quite cleverly directs our behavior to produce more sorrow...)
But for now it is late, and it seems a good time to let Neko Case bring in the morning.
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