alt Hacker News> "The only way to do it forever is to get your body chemistry on your side and reduce that cognitive load."
That's how all creatures in the wild do it. That's how humans did it for the past quarter million years. And all creatures did it for the past hundred million years. Wait, no, it isn't. Then there must be another way. A way that doesn't involve manipulative abusive capitalists and advertisers destroying health in the name of profit while selling it as freedom.
> "or the rest of your life, every day, until you die you must decide to stop and expend effort making that decision instead of thinking about work, family, politics, or"
How much does that lifestyle sound like freedom to you?
>That's how all creatures in the wild do it... Wait, no, it isn't.
Neither creatures in the wild, or primitive man, have access to unlimited quantities of calorie dense foods. We could go back to that lifestyle, but billions would have to die and the overall human lifespan would decrease rather than increasing.
I think I'd rather take a perfectly safe drug than go back to wiping with leaves and hunting for worm riddled meat.
> How much does that lifestyle sound like freedom to you?
I'm not even sure I understand which lifestyle you're asking about here, but if you mean the modern lifestyle then it's certainly more free than the lives primitive man had. "Might makes right" was the rule of the land back then, and contrary to your imagination, you probably wouldn't have been the mightiest. Certainly not forever.
Hell, it's more free now than the lives most of our grandparents had. 50 years ago about half of all white people surveyed said they'd move away if a black person bought a house in their neighborhood, and gay people were routinely murdered for existing.
There were no "good old days", and Stardew Valley is just a game.