Dark thoughts, and how to avoid them

The (potential) pleasures of 'just thinking' (part two)

‘Just thinking’

Here, instead of considering the pain of thinking, I want to consider the pleasures of thinking.

Backing up for a moment: there’s no particular reason to assume that we should find thinking pleasurable at all. Lots of the stuff we must think about/have to think about is simply not pleasant. You have bills that must be paid; you have a jerk…