Devious Donald Enthralls Dimwits By Controlling Their Dopamine Level

Alan: Anger, wrath and madness are surprisingly "feel-good" phenomena. 

Or at least promise to be.

It "all" hinges on anticipation.

Dopamine Profile: What Makes Donald Run? Dopamine-Induced Madness

by Charles Lyell on August 23, 2015

There’s a logical explanation for Mr. Trump’s illogical behavior. The Donald is driven by the same brain disorder that drove his older brother, Fred Jr., to drink himself to death at the age of 42.

On the surface the boys seem like polar opposites. On a dopaminergic level they’re pathological twins.

Crippled by fears of inadequacies, one ran to dopamine-triggering alcohol to deaden the pain of being a Trump, the other spews silly soundbites to score the dopamine-triggering attention he craves.

In a healthy world, Trump’s pathological behavior would expose him for the insecure, diseased, attention and status addict he is. In a healthy would, he’d be ashamed to let everyone know how empty and needy he is. In a healthy world, the idea of an out-of-control esteem addict with a TV show encouraging money and esteem addictions would make about as much sense as a pompous drunk touting alcoholism with the help of slobbering celebrities competing to drink themselves into oblivion.

In a dopamine addicted world Donald Trump is considered a success, someone to admire, and a media star who gets away with conning a venal media into pimping for an attention whore by pretending nonsense is news.

Trump Is A ‘Ratings Machine.’ Does That Justify The Media’s Binge?

Locked in codependent relationships, media execs can’t get enough Trump. Donald feeds corporate bigwigs’ dopamine needs with controversy, ratings, and ad dollars. In turn, the media feeds the needs of fear addicts who get high on the dopamine triggered by inflammatory sound bites.

One result of this dopamine-fueled vicious circle is the media circus turning the U.S. into the clown capital of the world.

Trump provides valuable insights into how dopamine-induced addictions devolved our planet into a floating asylum with the sickest addicts running the show.

Everything would change if scientists started using fMRIs to explore (and expose) the links between dopamine and addictions to money and Abraham Maslow’s deficiency needs for safety, power, acceptance, approval, attention, esteem, and status. Unfortunately, that’s not about to happen anytime soon because it would require researchers to take an honest look at their own addictions, something addicts are disinclined to do.

And, thanks to a Confederacy of Addicts, there’s no point in expecting the addicts controlling the media to investigate or write about the scientists’ dereliction of duty because that would expose their addictions.

So instead of serious investigative reports about genuine issues, the headlines are filled with fairy tales about a crazed candidate who’s only interest is scoring the same neurotransmitter junkies trigger with heroin.

Welcome to the asylum.