What if people are biologically unsuited for the American dream? The
man posing that troubling question isn't just another lefty activist.
It's Peter Whybrow, head of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and
Behavior at UCLA.
"We've been taught, especially in America, that happiness will be at
the end of some sort of material road, where we have lots and lots of
things that we want," said Whybrow, a 2008 PopTech Fellow and author
of American Mania: When More Is Not Enough. "We've set up all sorts
of tricks to delude ourselves into thinking that it's fine to get
what you want immediately."
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