I am beginning to relate more and more to this meme about those who supposedly have "burned" their dopamine receptors and can't feel genuine happiness anymore and don't have motivation to do work.
I know a lot of peeps claim that this is pseudoscientific bullshit, but isn't it weird how those we would consider "normies" today were obsessed with reading romantic novels, and that that in the 1800s was frowned upon among the upper class like watching netflix today, even though those romance novels are way harder for normies today to read? Everyone remembers the novel feeling of playing a video game when they were young, probably only had like 7 games and was only allowed 2-3 hours every day if they behaved nicely, but now that we have grown up and bemassed a huge collection of steam games we feel no desire at all to play.
Is there a reason that so many religions in every corner of the world have "monks" who practice what we now call "dopamine detox"; no fun allowed, to find real untainted joy?
If I were to "detox" myself for a month, and from there on be as minimalistic as possible with dopamine rushes, would that make me feel like a child again?