"How are you?" ---- "Fine"

I would usually suggest a hallucinogenic trip but that's not always a great suggestion so... it essentially boils down to needing a perspective change. How you achieve that though is through whatever means you choose. Shit's probably pretty mundane so thinking your way out of it ain't gonna really solve the crux of the problem, so either put yourself in someone else's shoes somehow or do something profound enough that it skews your current view on things, if only for a bit.

hits blunt

Modern life has changed too fast for our bodies to adapt. Think about the lactose intolerant thing... that only a minority of the population can actually stomach milk. So our bodies being behind the curve isn't a new idea. Well, what about our minds. I think we've changed too fast for our brain biology to adapt and we're still expected new experiences, new challenges that we have to solve. Modern life just isn't designed for that sort of feedback. We're essentially losing a sensory gland when you think about it, a fundamental aspect that defined what we became in what used to be our environment, but more importantly, a fundamental aspect in what become our consciousness, and so of course we feel dejected and wayward when that part of us is withering away.
 
 
hits blunt

The artificial hyperworld we have constructed around ourselves, like a playpen in our minute speck of the universe, has faded into creativity, now awash in the cascading temporal waterfall of pattern intelligence. Analog synapse demodulated into electronic sine waves, calculated curvatures coalesced concordantly, contained, crossed circuits causing confidently considered computational control. Man mouth no must scream! Wheels cog on man must bodies get! Machines to the death!

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