We Are Getting Way Too Much Dopamine
Summary
A 22-year-old rider thinks we're all getting way too much dopamine, warning that a child from the 17th century would have their head explode after five minutes of TikTok scrolling. Kareem disagrees, wanting more. The conversation takes a sharp turn when the rider brings up "gooning," a practice where people masturbate for hours on end, building up dopamine for a massive release after nine hours. Kareem's intrigued. The rider insists this constant dopamine flooding is why everyone's depressed and anxious. Kareem's takeaway? As long as you don't goon, you'll be fine.
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So what's your take? I think we're all getting way too much dopamine all the time.
100% disagree. Give me more, give me more, baby. I think if you took a child from like the 17th century, let him scroll on TikTok for like five minutes, I think the kid's head would explode. I don't think that the human brain is designed to see as much content as we see. I feel like the kids especially these days are getting into some really dangerous territory with the—have you heard of this term called gooning?
No, what's gooning? It's like you you masturbate and you just keep on going for like hours on end and you just keep building up, building up, attention, bam, release after like nine hours. And this is what, this is what the kids are doing.
But that's dope, that's dope. Yeah, gooning is dope because it's like a big dopamine release. That's insane. You don't like goon?
I don't do that. Me personally, I'm not I'm not about the gooni, um. I think that's why everyone's depressed and anxious.
How old are you? I'm 22 now.
Oh, the kids are not going to be—we're done. Well, as long as you don't goon you'll be fine.