> three predominant flavors
It is a middle class illness, and that this pre-dates the internet. French guillotines and Russians firing squads, anyone? https://danco.substack.com/p/michael-dwight-and-andy-the-three http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-003.html
> the dopamine issue
Dopamine has more to do with anticipation and reward circuits. If it …
Dopamine has more to do with anticipation and reward circuits. If it is not chemically induced, you only get The D if you are waiting for something to happen. That is why media dope-heads paradoxically act like the apocalypse is about to happen, desire a savior to save them, and they think that they have the insight (wokeness or "red pill") to make the former points happen.
Conversely, the best way to cut The D is to literally do the intellectual equivalent of the "ruined orgasm". One way is to get theories to "shoot themselves on the foot" instead of "aim for the target problem". e.g. Naïve democracy and capitalism does not optimize for problem-solving (aesthetic bias, populist gridlock), but perpetuates another set of problem called "cronyism".
> three predominant flavors
It is a middle class illness, and that this pre-dates the internet. French guillotines and Russians firing squads, anyone? https://danco.substack.com/p/michael-dwight-and-andy-the-three http://www.zzzptm.com/lss-003.html
> the dopamine issue
Dopamine has more to do with anticipation and reward circuits. If it is not chemically induced, you only get The D if you are waiting for something to happen. That is why media dope-heads paradoxically act like the apocalypse is about to happen, desire a savior to save them, and they think that they have the insight (wokeness or "red pill") to make the former points happen.
Conversely, the best way to cut The D is to literally do the intellectual equivalent of the "ruined orgasm". One way is to get theories to "shoot themselves on the foot" instead of "aim for the target problem". e.g. Naïve democracy and capitalism does not optimize for problem-solving (aesthetic bias, populist gridlock), but perpetuates another set of problem called "cronyism".