TJ, fear is faster, but no more real: <a dash of psychology, that says fear is more real than euphoria >
When things go wrong, they tend to do it quickly. When things go right, leading to euphoria, it's usually after a very long battle against an infinite array of things which can make things fail.
Learning to ride a bicycle or roller skate or climb cliffs or mountains involves lengthy learning and skill development to find a subtle balance and success. One slip on Mount Everest and Tibet approaches faster and more fatally than Hu Jintao's soldiers at the hint of disaffection or disobedience.
Success and euphoria are more real than fear, because success and euphoria are the goals. Fear is just the possibility of failure.
Every single living thing alive today is the living representative of a billion years of successful descendants, with not a single one in all that billion years having died before succeeding in establishing the next generation.
Amazing success against a billion years of impossibly negative odds is what every single living thing represents. To celebrate such amazing success, we invent wine, whisky and beer and drink ourselves into a stupor, which seems like an extremely perverse response to the achievements of all one's ancestors. After all they did, one throws caution to the wind, putting a billion years of miraculous effort, success and euphoria at risk.
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