> Humanity was fracking dopamine from art by first painting on cave walls, then oil on canvas, and eventually we got cinematography and video games.

I don't think you know what "fracking" means. It's a high-pressure, high-resource extraction method that produces high volume initially but quickly falls off, requiring a new source.

Laboriously painting a picture to get a dopamine hit is not the same as swiping up while doomscrolling.

Also, I'd guess that more strawberries are grown today than ever before. After their artificial essence was created in the labs.

I enjoyed the article. It was very evocative.

“Grog are you in there dopamine fracking again?”

“It’s not what it looks like! Gawd, just leave me alone mom!”