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The private society accelerates this. When your closed WhatsApp group laughs at a devastating insult, your dopamine spikes. You learn that asshole behavior is a social reward. The answer, so far, is: further than you think
When every show, tweet, and private group chat is saturated with sarcasm, betrayal, and casual cruelty, the brain recalibrates its "normal." Today’s television antihero would be a psychiatric patient in 1995. Conversely, a decent, kind protagonist now reads as "boring" or "unrealistic." We have built private digital treehouses where the