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If We Were A Culture Of High-risk Alcoholics, And Suddenly We Had Jack Daniels Piped Into Our Houses, We Would Be Feeding That Fire. Social Networking, And The Internet As A Whole, Seems To Have Simply Landed In An Extremely Fertile Place In An Extremely Fertile Time In History, When We All Have These Narcissistic Tendencies Anyway - You Can Go Further Back Into The Self-esteem Movement, And Dr. Spock, And The 'everybody Gets A Ribbon At The Track Meet' Sort Of Thing, Which Preceded The Internet - And Then You Drop The Internet Into The Middle Of This, And We've All Gone Haywire.

Indeed, The Best Way To Think Of Willpower Is Not As Some Shapeless Behavioral Trait But As A Sort Of Psychic Muscle, One That Can Atrophy Or Grow Stronger Depending On How It's Used.

The Families Of Many Athletes - Incensed At The Sports Leagues And Hoping To Make Games Safer Overall - Are Increasingly Making The Brains Of Players Who Die Prematurely And Suspiciously Available For Study. Some Athletes Are Even Making The Bequest Themselves.

All Behavioral Or Mood Disorders - Including Depression, Ocd, Adhd And Addiction - Have Some Neurochemical Components, But Sufferers Can Still Work To Overcome Them.

When You're Your Parents' One Shot At A Genetic Legacy, You May Get To Attend All The Best Schools, Wear All The Best Clothes And Eat All The Best Foods - At Least Relative To Children In Multiple-sibling Households. But You Also Wind Up With An Overweening Sense Of Your Own Importance.