Addiction may or may not exist, but if it exists I believe it to be a control structure that so many find themselves within, myself included. I haven’t thought long enough or hard enough about this part: obsession so called compulsive patterns exist but for a reason, they tend to soothe an anxiety and that compulsory pattern that seems to be the issue just tends to provide relief, albeit temporarily. Same with so called addictive patterns. They just happen to be the relief we use to ease some sort of internal or external problem and the pattern don’t tend to benefit us in the long run. There’s a book called the Freedom Model that has nothing to do with NOSTR or Bitcoin and yet I find many overlaps. Time preference, sovereignty, questioning existing teachings and structures. In the Freedom Model there is a concept that one is responsible for and is actually in control of their self destructive habit. We in some form know the cost whether we acknowledge it or not the whole time when we have a self destructive pattern. The book talks about mindset adjustment and changing views on what we see as valuable, and the so called path out of “addiction” is basically through changing one’s mindset on what they see as worth their time. #bookstr #freedom #asknostr #sovereignty #questionthenarrative #meditation #addiction #timepreference #mindset #nostr