It's more complex.

He is retarded. Leaving aside the more than obvious tendency to experience the highest satisfaction and happiness of falling in love and being loved by that same person (assuming the climax of this process, obviously), we are clearly goal-oriented and feel rewarded by the relativization of the difficulty to reach a concrete objective and our basal/default capacity to reach it. The rest of the variables that affect satisfaction are more obvious. Like sex (in itself affected by many variables), food (same), social interactions (same), normative valued behavior (same), etc. His idiotic counter example is stupid because: 1) A great physique doesn't keep you happy per se. There is a psychobiological tendency to feel satisfied when doing sports and improving (remember what I said about being goal-oriented creatures and the relativization), but the final satisfaction behind having a great physique is related to internalized norms like (for example), the importance of being c...

1) You don't need digitalisation to preserve misguided and false information. There are all kinds of dumb theories, ethics, traditions and whatnot that have been preserved for centuries or decades, such as phrenology, geocentrism, hedonism, bullfighting, homophobia, etc., and many had access to them and were influenced by them after their origins. Even nowadays or right before digitalization. The difference in any case is that nowadays anybody has quick access to alternative, more consistent and better theories, explanations and/or can be quickly confronted publicly in any digital social context if he/she expressed antiquated and illogical theories outside the mentioned small circle/social group where all the individuals of the same group confirm their own BS. In any case, long term preservation of info =/= lack of selection. These don't go necessarily together, and preservation also helps to improve from individual or collective mistakes. For instance, flat Earth the...