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Baird Brightman's avatar

Great writing, Jesse! Really valuable thoughts about our true nature, the failures of modern schooling, and ADHD/medication.

If you haven't come across it already, I think you would really enjoy Thom Hartmann's book "ADHD: A hunter in a farmer's world" that takes an evolutionary view of behaviors that were highly adaptive until we created our "modern" industrial world. He has a Substack that explores those ideas in depth:

https://www.hunterinafarmersworld.com/

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Erik Hogan's avatar

What a great perspective! I can really identify with those feelings of restlessness, and did my share of almost reckless solo backpacking trips as a teenager long before cell phones or GPS or emergency beacons! Its different now. Hard to re-capture that feeling of total freedom.

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