Scott Adams

You don't get any understanding what's happening.

You know, if you ask most people what's causing the division, what would they say?

Oh, the other side.

Duh.

I'll tell you who's causing the division.

It's those people I'm getting my dopamine hit insulting.

The people that I'm getting my rocks off from insulting, they are the cause.

But I might as well enjoy it.

I might as well enjoy mocking them because I didn't cause it.

It's not me.

But of course it's you.

You're getting your dopamine hit.

They're getting their dopamine hit.

It's dopamine.

So as long as there's a dopamine reward for division, you get more of it.

But as soon as you walk out the door to the real world, you can't get that hit.

It's simply not available to you.

So you go into a different chemical cost-benefit analysis.

You go, well, I don't want any cortisol, and that's the only thing available because I get in some stupid fight that I don't need.

So every time you fall into the trap that the people on the other side of you politically are broken problem monsters and they must be defeated, just remember that's your addiction talking.