Jim Penman argues that modern overstimulation has rewired our dopamine sensitivity, making family, children, and community less appealing than they once were. Speaker B pushes back on comparisons to non-capitalist countries like China.
We are wanting less children because our brains have been so bombarded with dopamine surges that we've become less sensitive.
China's not a capitalist country. Why is it the same when they're not a capitalist country?
Well, they're a country with similar sorts of issues, but even North Korea, the birth rate's going down. It's a bit higher than South Korea, but it's still not very high. It's just the nature of modern society that we're all changing in a way that makes us less interested, and this has all got to do with dopamine sensitivity. We are wanting less children because our brains have been so bombarded with dopamine surges that we've become less sensitive. And therefore the little trickle of dopamine from family, children, work, faith, community is no longer attractive enough and people lose interest in those.
Rising mental illness and falling birth rates have the same cause, it is this.....
