Why Is Everything A 'Dopamine Hit' Now?

dopamine dispatch #6: consumerist copes, 20th century addiction discourses, and (drug) metaphors we live by

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It’s a phrase that slips into everyday conversation unnoticed — we all know what it means, at least colloquially, but why is it fucki…