Scott Adams

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.

That's your addiction talking.

It's just like if you were on fentanyl and you had an opinion that the fentanyl had given you.

Like, oh, it doesn't really hurt me, whatever the fentanyl tells you to think.

So it's just the dopamine that's making you talk.

Once you realize this is a reframe, by the way.

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