Scott Adams

Now I'm going to turn it into a machine.

What would be your experience if you got into a political conversation and it turned ugly?

you would produce cortisol.

Your body would produce cortisol.

And that makes you feel bad.

Because it'd be tense.

So tension makes you feel bad and trains you not to do it.

So that's why we don't do it in person.

Now let's go to social media.

When I see a tweet from Rob Reiner, and I think, you know, I'll bet I could make my followers laugh with this clever cutting rejoinder.

And they'll send my little post.

And I'll get a bunch of positive reinforcement retweets and hearts.

And I'll get a bump of dopamine.

So when I'm in person, I don't cause division.

I just get along with everybody because I don't want cortisol.

And that's my only option.

Well, the risk, right?

I mean, maybe I could find somebody like-minded, but I'm not going to take the risk of a cortisol cluster bomb that I created for myself.

But online, it's nothing but dopamine.

So I'm like, I don't mean addicted.