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DoctorJohn | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I wonder if it’s not so much broken minds but misdirected minds. We must ask “more of what? Why?” But I think the goal-oriented mind is appropriate for living things (to live and expand life). What may be broken is the culture (another way of saying the instruction set society gives us).
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Karnage | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It’s beyond culture. We seek to fill empty space with stuff instead of being content with what we have.  Fill empty moments, empty spaces, empty time, empty hands. We’re psychologically embedded with this. It takes active effort to notice it and act against it.
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Karnage | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Open up a blank page in a notebook, look at it and observe your thoughts.
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DoctorJohn | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I don’t think the urge to strive/fill is a problem. You might call it the urge to live, actually. Living things are striving things. Humans are unique because to striving/living well is not automatic. Living poorly/wastefully … seems to be the default. Defaults I think are largely driven by culture, unless one bucks this trend and develops his own defaults. Current culture channels striving/living toward consuming/mindlessness/predictable behaviors that that benefit the “matrix”