[MitPitt]

Humanity was fracking dopamine from art by first painting on cave walls, then oil on canvas, and eventually we got cinematography and video games. Author sounds like a luddite. Feel free to paint on cave walls. Nothing's happening to real strawberries either.

[lelanthran]

> 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.

[profsummergig]

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.

[Waterluvian]

“Grog are you in there dopamine fracking again?”

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