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Dopamine: Politics, Religion, and Power (Original Post)
Donkees
Feb 2016
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snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)1. This is incredible. I can't recommend it enough. nt
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)2. IIRC dopamine correlates to a willingness to take risks
Which reminds me of this.
"Players" -- the child, the actor, and the gambler. The idea of chance is absent from the world of the child and the primitive. The gambler also feels in service of an alien power. Chance is a survival of religion in the modern city . . .
-- Jim Morrison
Players only love you when they're playing
-- Fleetwood Mac, Dreams
http://www.kithrup.com/dkm/dkmfic/toons.html
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)3. Understand this theory...
and we know why the 1% have no empathy for any life on earth...except their own...
What America does not need is yet another 1%er as president...
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)4. Republicans: putting the DOPE in Dopamine!
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)5. And the dopamine rush and addiction helps explain the insanity of the derivative bubble
Imo
Donkees
(31,450 posts)6. ...and some of what goes on in the GD: Primaries forum :)