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When friend groups intellectualize pleasure instead of experiencing it

My closest friends and I have become people who analyze our fun to death instead of just having it, and we've turned pleasure into another thing to optimize rather than experience.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has replaced embodied pleasure with abstract discussion about pleasure, losing access to the thing itself.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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