{"id":177969,"date":"2024-09-24T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177969"},"modified":"2024-09-24T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T18:23:49","slug":"why-do-we-want-things-that-are-bad-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/24\/why-do-we-want-things-that-are-bad-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we want things that are bad for us?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" data-attachment-id=\"177973\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/24\/why-do-we-want-things-that-are-bad-for-us\/studio-sept-2024\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"studio Sept 2024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024-1024x768.jpg?resize=604%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/studio-Sept-2024.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Short-term gain pleasures so often turn into long-term sorrow type pains. We have an extraordinary amount of rain locally, but today its stopped after 3 days worth. It is the usual routine this week. Practice and record and see what I can create.  No band outings until October starts.<br><br>This weeks song that&#8217;s scampered off into the wild: <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1921872872&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/locked-down-even-now\" title=\"Locked Down Even Now\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Locked Down Even Now<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">Self destructive behaviours are not always obvious to us and others.<br><br>I tried watching Sir Keirs speech. <br>I had to turn it off. <br>Why can he not use the phrase &#8220;People of this country&#8221; instead of the ablest, divisive and offensive &#8220;Working people of this country&#8221;? <br>This implies that if you are not economically active you can go &#8220;F*** yourself&#8221; rather.<br>Get a new speech writer now. <br><br>Its pissed me off so much I feel a song coming on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short-term gain pleasures so often turn into long-term sorrow type pains. We have an extraordinary amount of rain locally, but today its stopped after 3 days worth. It is the usual routine this week. Practice and record and see what I can create. No band outings until October starts. This weeks song that&#8217;s scampered off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/24\/why-do-we-want-things-that-are-bad-for-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why do we want things that are bad for us?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kit","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6698,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/03\/18\/budget-2015-comeback-country-claims-must-not-mask-osbornes-failings\/","url_meta":{"origin":177969,"position":0},"title":"Budget 2015: Britain&#8217;s fragile recovery is based on an act of political conjuring","author":"diana Stone","date":"March 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Chancellor attempted to paint his nakedly political plans as statesmanlike \u2013 but UK\u2019s woeful productivity mars his boasts to have navigated the road to recovery","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Powered by Guardian.co.uk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardianBLACK.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":176239,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/12\/10\/hitting-the-wall\/","url_meta":{"origin":177969,"position":1},"title":"Hitting The Wall","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"After an OK week, I had a bit of a slump today though and missed out on a musical opportunity, that I was looking forward to but my head was not in the right place at all. Its frustrating but these things happen from time to time and one should\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":151681,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/11\/13\/social-murder\/","url_meta":{"origin":177969,"position":2},"title":"Social murder","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Social murder\u00a0is a phrase used by\u00a0Friedrich Engels\u00a0in his 1845 work\u00a0The Condition of the Working-Class in England\u00a0whereby \"the class which at present holds social and political control\" (i.e. the\u00a0bourgeoisie) \"places hundreds of\u00a0proletarians\u00a0in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death\".[1]\u00a0This was in a different category\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1121,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/09\/04\/not-the-best-way-to-start-the-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":177969,"position":3},"title":"Not the best way to start the month","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"A very bad start to September\u00c2\u00a0 as I have managed to miss 2 gigs due to health problems. 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