Be A Dopamine Junkie, Go Broke

It's not as catchy, but it's kind of self-referential that way.

Why do I care what Oreo or Bud Light or whoever does? It’s all just silly corporate pandering. Like really, why am I supposed to care? I tried eating Lay’s chips for the first time in a long time again today and they just tasted like cardboard. If I picked a flavor with MSG or gross dairy products instead I’m sure it’d have been much worse than cardboard. I just wanted a real potato after that. Poor forcibly-transed potatoes, the big potato chip factories are like Iran but for potatoes. Why do I even care about the news anyway, much less social media? There’s no point in caring about it. Substack is also social media, and while I think social media has some uses, get real, it’s social media. Posting about books or video games or politics or religion on social media won’t help you or anyone else all that much to do anything except raise awareness to you or whatever you made. It’s basically just an advertising platform for other things, plus even Substack unfortunately has the whole gambling type of mechanism with likes and restacks even if it’s much less than other places.

Maybe Substack should be caught up in occasional controversies because it’s not that great either even if it’s miles beyond TwitterX the X Parrot. TwitterX makes it no wonder Elon Musk is just like “Oh, here’s my mind, I don’t need that anymore, let’s replace it with an AI” because he doesn’t use his mind, he just uses his adrenaline and his dopamine and his other hormones. Not very attractive, but then, he doesn’t look super healthy and attractive anyway so I don’t think anyone was fooled. Trump also used to have a Twitter addiction too though I’m not defending Biden since I think he seems to just have actual dementia. It’s all very silly. Of course people who get pulled down the social media rabbit hole end up becoming a bunch of political extremists on all possible sides of political extremism, the environment basically forces it. So go make some cookies and fry some potatoes or whatever and stop corporate garbage from replacing real life. I don’t have any particular problem with the Internet per se unlike many people in addition to not having a problem with social media per se, it’s all how people use it, but people mostly use it as a Skinner box and that’s eek.

Be a dopamine junkie, go broke. It's not as catchy as “go woke, go broke,” but it's kind of self-referential that way.