Dr. Robert Lustig

So what are the four breaks?

Reasoning, prefrontal cortex.

Memory, hippocampus.

Afferent vagus, interception, intuition, gut feelings.

And finally, oxytocin, safety.

Each one of those is failing, but for different reasons.

But all the reasons for failing have to do with what has happened to our environment over the last 50 years.

And I can sum up what's happening in the brain to lead to these dysfunctions with two concepts, dopamine and cortisol.

Cortisol, the fear hormone, the stress hormone, the I'm over-exhausted hormone, and dopamine, the I'm in pain and I need pleasure neurotransmitter.

So when you're in pain, the only thing you can do is mollify it.

And we mollify it through all sorts of methods, mechanisms, like cocaine, heroin, nicotine, alcohol, sugar, or shopping, gambling, internet gaming, social media, pornography.

But you know what?

We also mollify it with othering.

We mollify it with subjugation.

We mollify it with war.

And so you can see that this combination of dopamine and cortisol has led us into a very, very nasty place.

And it's basically out of control and we need to do something about it.

It runs through my wife's family nonstop.

Well, so number one, technology is a tool.

Okay.