Astonishing Affairs? OR LIFE at 5?

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Lately there seem to be more exposes about affairs than normal, although I don't know what is normal. What do you do when someone you looked up to is caught doing things that they can't imagine nor can you? Often it is people who have the most amazing lives, right in the limelight, in a different reality, which of could no hunter gatherer ancestor would experience. That's the point. Neurotransmitters high from hedonic pleasures lead to neurotransmitter low. All the "maladaptive" behaviors are likely to occur during a neurotransmitter HIGH or an neurotransmitter LOW. In a way, the higher they climb, the further they fall. It's about the brain, and of course we are all responsible for our behaviors, but the more we drift toward Brain State 5 the more extreme the thoughts, emotions and behavior. Of course, those extremes are diverse which is enough to keep us thinking in terms of the specifics, rather than standing back and saying, "Oh I get it. They are at Brain State 5, and OF COURSE there would be a tendency to be in one extreme or another. Something about that is so unifying . . . and accurate.