While reading the article I got the feeling that this article touched on something much deeper than it meant to. In stories there has often been a artistic, dreamy, head in the clouds type that either delights or confuses the more stolid, logical, sensible and practical other character.
Abbot and Costello, Rabbit and Briar Fox, Dexter and Dee-Dee, Billy and Mandy, Drop Dead Fred and everyone else in that movie, (or anyone in a Yahoo Serious movie other than Yahoo Serious) these dualistic Gemini archetypes are littered throughout western culture, and quite possibly others but I don't know them well enough to bring any popular characters to mind.
I wonder how much of that is caused by the fundamental divide between high and low dopamine functioning people?
Wild, zany, brash and in your face manic lifestyle caused primarily by having a lot of dopamine in your brain? With plenty of people around to facilitate the outcome at least in part because of the attention-seeking nature of the effect?
This makes me long to attempt something similar. It makes me wonder who I would be on a long arc dopamine rush. Would I paint? Would I sing? Would I drive my friends and coworkers wild? Or lose everything in a dopamine fueled fumbling towards ecstasy?
Who knows, but it's intriguing! It's as tempting as a siren song. If someone had those pills in front of me right now I don't know if I could resist trying them.
Abbot and Costello, Rabbit and Briar Fox, Dexter and Dee-Dee, Billy and Mandy, Drop Dead Fred and everyone else in that movie, (or anyone in a Yahoo Serious movie other than Yahoo Serious) these dualistic Gemini archetypes are littered throughout western culture, and quite possibly others but I don't know them well enough to bring any popular characters to mind.
I wonder how much of that is caused by the fundamental divide between high and low dopamine functioning people?
Wild, zany, brash and in your face manic lifestyle caused primarily by having a lot of dopamine in your brain? With plenty of people around to facilitate the outcome at least in part because of the attention-seeking nature of the effect?
This makes me long to attempt something similar. It makes me wonder who I would be on a long arc dopamine rush. Would I paint? Would I sing? Would I drive my friends and coworkers wild? Or lose everything in a dopamine fueled fumbling towards ecstasy?
Who knows, but it's intriguing! It's as tempting as a siren song. If someone had those pills in front of me right now I don't know if I could resist trying them.