2021/8/25 I look around these days and see addicts. Not just coca-cola, which fairly screams it, and other caffeinated things. Not anymore. The last few years any eating of sugar has triggered this. Sugar is everywhere and brightly colored packages declare it so. Now though, with my new understanding of dopamine seeking behaviors, it's almost everyone that I label. Users of phones, music listeners, dogs. Not that any body can escape the seek pleasure avoid pain paradigm, but so much of the fun that modern capitalism encourages us to partake in is demonstrably bad for us, hurts us later. Once an addiction sets in that's not obvious though. The immediate negative effects are normalized and become hardly noticeable or a positive trigger as the hallmark of impending hit.