Must read piece by , Ted Gioia www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

• Chart on what he called ‘dopamine culture’. 

- “new culture” = “the absence of Culture (with a capital C)."

- Everything is “getting turned into TikTok” because it is profitable and presents a kind of prisoner’s dilemma: if you don’t exploit the dopamine loop, your competitors will. And there’s no need to lose sleep about it. Engagement metrics show that you’re just giving consumers the moist robots what they crave. “Some companies get people hooked with pills and needles,” Gioia explained. “Others with apps and algorithms. But either way, it’s just churning out junkies.” He called the corporate overlords of this wasteland the “dopamine cartel.”