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The hit you keep chasing while the chaser secretly runs your whole life.
means The act of formally agreeing to or sanctioning something, or the feeling of finding someone or something good and worthy.
from From Latin 'approbare,' meaning 'to make good, regard as good,' built from 'ad-' (to) plus 'probare' (to test, to prove). That same 'probare' fathered a sprawling family — 'prove,' 'probe,' 'probable' — all circling the idea of putting something to the test. 'Approval' reached English through Old French 'aprover' in the medieval period; the noun form, 'approval,' is a later English creation, the verb dressed up in a suffix to name the warm glow that follows the verdict.
- brain chemistry
- Social acceptance triggers the same dopamine as food and money
- survival logic
- Tribal exile once meant death, so approval feels existential
- the rating game
- FDA approval can take over a decade per drug
- like economy
- Social platforms engineered likes to mimic slot-machine reward loops
- costly paradox
- Seeking it most reliably repels the people granting it
fda drug approval — u.s. food and drug administration granted accelerated approval to aducanumab for alzheimer's in 2021, later withdrawn
senate confirmation vote — ketanji brown jackson approved 53-47 by u.s. senate for supreme court in 2022
mortgage approval — fannie mae and freddie mac approved roughly 65% of mortgage applications in 2023