Dopamine: Politics, Religion, and Power

[Donkees]

[snagglepuss]

1. This is incredible. I can't recommend it enough. nt

[Babel_17]

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]

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. Republicans: putting the DOPE in Dopamine!

[Babel_17]

5. And the dopamine rush and addiction helps explain the insanity of the derivative bubble

Imo

[Donkees]

6. ...and some of what goes on in the GD: Primaries forum :)

[Babel_17]

7. Ha! :) /nt