Burnout and the relative value of dopamine.

Okay, I know this isn’t a blanket truth—and I’m a much more sympathetic person than I sound here, so I will parlay my theory into more scientifically based reasoning: dopamine rules. Dopamine ROCKS. I’d be willing to say that many of the problems facing our society today are the culprit of that tiny molecule worming its way into the pleasure receptors of our brains . . . and our craving for more of the stuff. Would we be in the middle of this foreclosure and debt crisis if it weren’t so darn fun to buy a big fancy house? Another flat screen? And take the obesity epidemic—