Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” We live in a strange hybrid of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. We have surveillance, speech policing, history revision, hate demonstrations. At the same time, we have abundance of goods, we are free of personal anxiety, and have total instant access to information delivering anything we want.

Social media directs you toward material that will trigger a response. The dopamine from seeing what you believe, or getting approval for your statements, is a little dopamine hit. If you respond with indignation, it gives you a survival response dopamine hit. Dopamine addiction allows the propaganda machine to opiate the lazy toward things that have no basis in reality, logic, or science.