Posted by Chairman_MAO on May 2, 2005, at 9:35:48 [reposted on May 4, 2005, at 10:04:20 | original URL]
In reply to Is PBabble Addictive?, posted by Phillipa on April 30, 2005, at 21:18:54
We sure are obsessed with the notion of addiction in the 21st century, aren't we (at least in the US)? 100 years ago, the concept of "addiction" simply meant "something which person x loves to do a lot"; it often wasn't even used with a negative connotation, AFAIK. In that sense, psychobabble is addictive. Addiction is simply relying on a given experience--repeated over and over--to get satisfaction out of life that the sufferer feels he/she cannot get any other way.
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