[P] It's funny, but I'm pretty sure that The Great Filter is dopamine. At least for us. It really is a privilege not being chattel forced into a group-self hiverarchy in order to chase it. It grants a certain dignity in the end times, a realisation that trying to be important in this world isn't important, that the numbrr going up is effectively meaningless. When societal collapse hits, assets/stocks/banks mean bugger all.

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[P] The sad thing is is that as we enter into a gilded age and a time of climate atrocity, all enabled and fuelled by a hunger for dopamine, we're likely to go extinct before we evolve into something better. I feel that the rise of neurodivergence is partly a better ability to recognise it, but partly an evolutionary response to the danger of dominant dopamine. Even if it is, it might be too little, too late.

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[P] I honestly feel as though the world would function better in a neurodivergent, low-dopamine state where we can just pop a pill for temporary dopamine boosts. We could manage it, then, being aware that it's handy for motivation—but also really dangerous if unmonitored. The thing is? Dopamine is extremely dangerous. Money is the physical manifestation of it, and greed is behind every war and atrocity. Maybe one day...

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[P] I think ADHD probably has it the best, being able to turn it on with adderall is pretty neat. That that works for me was part of my AuDHD diagnosis. So, yes, I recognise the privilege. I don't need to make number go up, I can recognise RNG for the horrible, exploitative experience that it is. I'll never want to gamble. It definitely is a privilege. I know the notion is that typies are ubermensch, but... dominant dopamine.

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[P] Many forms of nwurodivergence—ADHD, autism, HSP, extreme introversion, and more—have what the nwrcissistic group-selves would describe as a "dysfunctional" dopaminergic system, but I see it as the freedom of not being dominated by it. I mean: Yay, I don't hsve to join a vain group-self and sacrofice my identity! Yay, I don't have to feel that sickly, acidic, nauseating burnout thanks to being forced to chase it! Hooray!

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