We Live in a World Saturated With Dopamine

We're living in an era called the Anthropocene. We have almost infinite access to drugs and behaviors that release a lot of dopamine all at once. More dopamine that our primitive wiring was evolved for since we evolved for a world of scarcity and ever-present danger. You know, we are reflexively designed to approach pleasure and avoid pain. In fact, we have to think about not doing it, right?

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